James Webb"James R Webb"
Christie's, accessed 2011-11-20 (1835–1895) was a British painter specialising in marine views and

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. He lived all his life in

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, London."James Webb"
Burlington Paintings, accessed 2011-11-20

Life

He was born in a family of artists. His father Archibald Webb and his brother Byron Webb were also noted painters. He exhibited in

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at the Royal Academy and the British Institute between 1850 and 1888, and many of his works still hang in London in the collections of the

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and the

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. Other works are found in a large number of provincial galleries. Webb was a pupil of

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. He is buried on the east side of

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Works

* 1857: The Lock * 1859: A Barge in a Norfolk Landscape * 1864: Fishing off the coast "Oil painting on canvas by James Webb", Richard Redding Antiques, includes one of the most detailed biographies available online * 1865: On a choppy sea * 1869: Mewstone * 1870: View of Cologne with incomplete dome * c.1870: Stricken Vessel off Harbour with Watching Fisherfolk' * 1874: River Landscape * 1875
Fishing boats and shipping in Rotterdam in an evening calm
Sold to private collector. *1875
Seascape
- which is held by Hartlepool Museum Service * 1875: Cartagena * 1875: Vessels moored at the steps of a Moorish palace * 1876: Givet * 1876: Dinant, Belgium * 1876-1885: Old Kew Bridge, London – which is held at the

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* 1877: Heidelberg * 1883: Birkhamstead * 1888: Off to the fishing grounds ;Undated * Margate Pier, owned by

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, on loan to

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gallery,

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* A View on the Rhine * Shipping at sunset * The end of the day (attributed) * Cottages by the cliffs * Gazing across the loch * Sunset over Dordrecht Harbour * Brighton in the Season (described in one obituary as his 'most important work') * Moonlight near Rotterdam, exhibited at St James's Gallery 1884"ST. JAMES'S GALLERY", Morning Post, Mon 24 Nov 1884, accessed at britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk 2011-11-29

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Webb, James English landscape painters British male painters 1895 deaths 1825 births Burials at Highgate Cemetery

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Paint 19th-century British male artists