Joseph Crawhall (20 August 1861 – 24 May 1913) was an
English artist
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born in
Morpeth, Northumberland.
Life
Crawhall was the fourth child and second son of
Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. Crawhall specialised in painting animals and birds. He was born 20 August 1861 at Morpeth, Northumberland. He trained at
King's College London
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before going to Paris to work with
Aimé Morot in 1882.
In the 1880s and 1890s, his work became associated with the
Glasgow Boys. He was strongly influenced by the
Impressionists, and his work, like theirs, was rejected by the art establishment, in his case in the form of the
Royal Scottish Academy
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The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy ...
.
In 1887/88 he visited
Tangiers with
Pollock Nisbet,
Robert Alexander and Robert's son
Edwin.
In the 1880s he travelled throughout Morocco and Spain, abandoning
oil painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on coppe ...
and moving to
watercolour
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the ...
s with a lighter
palette.
In April 1894 art dealer
Alexander Reid gave Crawhall his first one-man-show, at the inaugural exhibition at Reid's new gallery at 124 St Vincent Street in central Glasgow. The principal buyer of Crawhall's work from this exhibition was
William Burrell. Reid had introduced Crawhall and Burrell at a private dinner party at his house on 13 April.
He died in London in May 1913.
Legacy
Many of Crawhall's works are in the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and in the
Burrell Collection
The Burrell Collection is a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It houses the art collection of William Burrell, Sir William Burrell and Constance Burrell, Constance, Lady Burrell. The museum opened in 1983 and reopened on ...
. His works are few because he is known to have destroyed those he was unhappy with.
A portrait of him by
Walter Westley Russell is in the
City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
Notes
External links
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A selection of Crawhall's Spanish and Moroccan inspired works at the Burrell Collection
19th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English painters
English modern painters
1861 births
1913 deaths
People from Morpeth, Northumberland
Glasgow School
Alumni of King's College London
20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists
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