Paul Falconer Poole (1807–1879) was a British subject and

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painter. Though self-taught, his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy, and dramatic power gained Poole a high position among British artists.

Early life

Paul Falconer Poole was born on 28 December 1807 at 43 College Street in

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, England, the fourth son of James Paul Poole, a Bristol coal merchant.

Career

Poole exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being ''The Well,'' a scene in

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. There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his ''Farewell, Farewell'' in 1837, which was followed by the ''Emigrant's Departure,'' ''Hermann and Dorothea'' and ''By the Waters of Babylon''. In 1843, his position was made secure by his ''Solomon Eagle'', and by his success in the Cartoon Exhibition, in which he received from the Fine Art Commissioners a prize of £300 sterling. After his exhibition of the ''Surrender of Syon House'', he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1846, and was made an academician in 1861. In the 1850s, he lived at 43 Camden Road Villas (now 203 Camden Rd) near Camden Town.

Personal life

Poole was a close friend of landscape artist Thomas Danby (c. 1818–1886) with whom he shared a house in Hampstead,

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for a time.

Death

Grave of Paul Falconer Poole in Highgate Cemetery

Poole died on the 22nd September 1879 and was buried on the eastern side of

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References

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External links

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P F Poole online
(ArtCyclopedia)
Works by P F Poole
(Bridgeman Art Gallery)

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Poole, Paul Falconer 19th-century English painters English male painters British genre painters Artists from Bristol 1806 births 1879 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery Royal Academicians 19th-century English male artists