James Campbell (
Liverpool
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, 1828 –
Birkenhead
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, 1893) was an
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artist, part of a group from
Liverpool
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, who were influenced by the
Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...
style. He studied briefly at the
Liverpool Academy and then moved on to the
Royal Academy Schools
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in 1851.
His pictures focused on the details of lower-middle class and working class life in his native Liverpool, with works such as ''Waiting for Legal Advice'' (1857) which drew on his first hand experience as son of an insurance clerk. The Walker Art Gallery describes him as "the most Dickensian of all the Pre-Raphaelites."
The Pre-Raphaelites at National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool museums
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References
See also
* List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings - including the work of James Campbell.
*William Lindsay Windus
William Lindsay Windus (1822–1907) was an English painter, part of a group of Liverpool painters who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style.
Life and work
He was born in Liverpool, England, was initially taught art by William Daniels ...
*Daniel Alexander Williamson
Daniel Alexander Williamson (1823–1903) was a British artist, part of a group of Liverpool painters who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style.
He lived and worked in London from 1849 to 1857, before returning north to the Lancashir ...
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* John Lee (university principal) (1779–1859), University of Edinburgh principal
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* William Davis
19th-century English painters
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1828 births
1893 deaths
Artists from Liverpool
Pre-Raphaelite painters
Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools
19th-century English male artists
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