James Campbell Noble (22 July 1845 – 25 September 1913) was a Scottish

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. He signed his paintings, mostly in the left hand bottom corner, as J.C. Noble or as J.Campbell Noble.

Education

He initially studied at the board of manufacturing in Edinburgh and then the

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schools under

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and

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Biography

James Campbell Noble was born in Edinburgh on 22 July 1845, the son of James Noble and Rachel Campbell. Three of his cousins were also artists: Robert Noble (1857–1917), James Inglis Noble (1853-1912), and David Noble (1865-1890). J.C. Noble apprenticed Robert in 1871 and possibly taught the other two cousins as well. He traveled throughout Europe to paint, where the

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were particularly favorites. He had a studio on Picardy Place and was a teacher at the Royal Scottish Academy art class on The Mound and at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place. His pupils included

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. Initially he began with rustic genre like dark cottages and outside life. Then when he became a member of ARSA in 1879 and the

in 1892, he abandoned the previous subject for land- and seascape scenery and marine paintings of rivers and ports. He painted the scenery on the Clyde, Seine, Tyne, Merwede, Maas (Meus) and Rhine. For a long part of his live he lived in the Netherlands where his favorite port for painting seemed to have been

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, Dort for short. There are quite a number of his oil paintings painted in this harbour facility, which also seem to have attracted other painters. However he also painted in places like 's-Gravendeel, Volendam and Zaandam. In the early 1880s he painted the rocky coastal scenes of

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whilst he was living in

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. He returned however to the Netherlands in 1900 painting the Dutch waterways again. Towards the end of his life he lived again in Scotland, where he lived in

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and where he is also mentioned in

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in 1896. His

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exhibited at

in 1913. His portrait was painted by the well known portrait painter

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and is exhibited in the

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in Edinburgh. In later life he lived at 12 Queen Street in Edinburgh's First New Town. He died on 25 September 1913 whilst in Ledaig,

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. He is buried in

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midway along the eastern path of the main area. His cousin Robert Noble RSA lies alongside.

Exhibited

; Royal Glasgow Institute of

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;

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in London from 1880 to 1896.

Works and locations

See *A Watermill : Lawrence House Museum *The Old Wharf,

, Holland : Victoria Art Gellery *Tarbet : Sheffield Museum *A Study :

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Museums *A Dutch Scene :

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Museums *Sunday Morning :

Museums *Looking up Strathspey,

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Art Gallery *

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Council *Outward Bound : Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling *Harbour Scene with Fishing Boats : Perth and Kinross Council *A Grey Day with Dutch Fishing Boats : Perth and Kinross Council *Half-tide Rocks, East Coast

* Waves :

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* Dutch Canal Scene :

* Sunset near

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on Solway :

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References

* ''The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940'', compiled by J.Johnson and A. Greutzner, Antique Collectors Club, 1976, Baron Publishing, Woodbridge, Suffolk * Portrait by John Pettie,

* ''The Dictionary of Victorian Painters'', 2nd Edition, by Christopher Wood, 1978 * The ''Allgemeines Kuenstlerlexikon Deutschland'' mentions his birth date as 22 Juli 1846

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