Joseph Powell (1780–1834) was an English watercolour painter and printmaker.
[Mallalieu 2004.] He was largely engaged as a teacher of painting in watercolours. He executed landscapes chiefly drawn from English scenery, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy exhibitions from 1796 to 1829.
Life
Joseph Powell was born in 1780.
He painted at first in oils, but subsequently devoted himself almost entirely to watercolours. His subjects were landscapes, chiefly drawn from English scenery, but sometimes of a topographical nature. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the
'Old' Society of Painters in Water-colours at the time of its foundation. Powell was largely engaged as a teacher of painting in water-colours;
Samuel Redgrave
Samuel Redgrave (3 October 1802, London - 20 March 1876 London) was an English civil servant and writer on art.
Life
He was eldest son of William Redgrave, and brother of Richard Redgrave, and was born at 9 Upper Eaton Street, Pimlico, London. Whe ...
was among his numerous pupils. Powell was a frequent exhibitor at the
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
exhibitions from 1796 to 1829. He showed also "considerable skill" as an etcher, says
Lionel Cust, and published some etchings of trees for the use of his pupils, and some landscape etchings after the old masters. An etching of a landscape by
Domenichino
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Life
Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoem ...
, now in the
National Gallery
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, is executed with "much force", in Cust's opinion. He also published a few lithographs. There are watercolour drawings by him in the print-room at the British Museum, and at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
He died in 1834.
Gallery
File:Joseph Powell - Dunster Castle, Somerset - B1975.3.908 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Dunster Castle, Somerset''
File:Joseph Powell - Dunster Castle, Somerset, Showing Castle in Distance - B1975.3.907 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Dunster Castle, Somerset, Showing Castle in Distance''
File:Joseph Powell - Exeter Gate, Harnham Road, Salisbury - B1977.14.5108 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Exeter Gate, Harnham Road, Salisbury''
File:Joseph Powell - Farmhouse with Figures at Door and Window - B1975.4.1710 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Farmhouse with Figures at Door and Window''
File:Joseph Powell - Fisherman's Quarters, Robin Hood's Bay - B1977.14.5941 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Fisherman's Quarters, Robin Hood's Bay''
File:Joseph Powell - Fishing Smacks - B1986.29.456 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Fishing Smacks''
File:Joseph Powell - In Borrowdale - B1977.14.5940 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''In Borrowdale''
File:Joseph Powell - In Rydal Park - B1977.14.5942 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''In Rydal Park''
File:Joseph Powell - Windermere from Rydal Park - B1977.14.5939 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Windermere from Rydal Park''
File:Joseph Powell - River Landscape with Lock in Foreground - B1975.4.897 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''River Landscape with Lock in Foreground''
File:Joseph Powell - Thatched Cottage and Adjoining Barn - B1975.4.1709 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Thatched Cottage and Adjoining Barn''
File:Joseph Powell - The Angel and Tobias (Number 7) - B1984.21.454 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''The Angel and Tobias''
File:Joseph Powell - Untitled - B1984.21.436 - Yale Center for British Art.jpg, ''Untitled''
Notes
References
Sources
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Attribution:
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Further reading
* Bryan, Michael (1889). ''Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers''. Rev. ed. Armstrong, Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.)
Vol. 2 London: George Bell and Sons. p. 317.
* Graves, Algernon (1884).
A Dictionary of Artists Who Have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings From 1760 to 1880'. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 188.
* Redgrave, Samuel (1874)
"Powell, John, landscape painter" ''A Dictionary of Artists of the English School''. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 324.
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Catalogue of the First Circulating Collection of Water-colour Paintings of the British School, Illustrating the Rise and Progress of the Art: Selected from the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington'. H.M. Stationery Office, 1908. p. 30.
"Joseph Powell" The British Museum. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
"Powell, Joseph" ''
Benezit Dictionary of Artists.'' Oxford Art Online. 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
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1780 births
1834 deaths
19th-century English painters
English watercolourists
English landscape painters