Thursday, July 10, 2008

David James




[Off the Cornish Coast]
[A Bright Day, Pembrokeshire Coast]
pair, '83 and '87
oil on canvas
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[A Summer Morning, St. Brides Bay, South Wales] '87
oil on canvas
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fl. 1854 - 1862
(from Sotherby's Catalogue)
Chris Wood in The Dictionary of Victorian Painters only lists one David James (fl. 1881 - 1892) who was a marine painter who did much of his work off Cornwall and was particularly skilled at painting waves. Sounds the same painter to me.

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