James Campbell (

Liverpool Liverpool is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the List of English districts by population, 10th largest English district by population and its E ...

, 1828 –

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, 1893) was an

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artist, part of a group from

, 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, Jam ...

style. He studied briefly at the Liverpool Academy and then moved on to the Royal Academy Schools 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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