Charles Meer Webb

Charles Meer Webb (born July 16, 1830 in Slough , then Buckinghamshire , now Berkshire , † December 9, 1895 in Düsseldorf ) was a German-British genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Webb was a student at the academies of Amsterdam and Antwerp. From 1848 to 1851 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was taught by Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Rudolf Wiegmann . In 1851 he took private lessons with Wilhelm Camphausen . From 1848 to 1893 he was - with interruptions - a member of the artists' association Malkasten . He mainly worked in Düsseldorf, for a while he lived in Kleve . Webb died of a fall at the age of 65.

Works (selection)

The game of chess

The advocacy group

With the lawyer

• Puritans in the guard room , 1852
• The Surprised Players , 1854
• In the tavern , 1858
• The Alchemist , 1858
• together with Emil Volkers : In front of the inn , 1861
• In the shoemaker's workshop , 1863
• The Division of the Treasure , 1863
• Checkmate , 1864
• The returnee , 1864
• Portrait of J. Gudden as a pipe smoker , 1865
• The pipe smoker , 1869
• The lecture , 1872
• After the meal , 1874
• The potato peeler , 1876
• Prosit (The Toast) , 1877
• News from the front , 1880
• Ship and Surf , 1880
• A soothing meal , 1883
• Spiritual sick visit , 1884
• At the Usurer , 1887
• The Arrest of the Poacher , 1888
• The newspaper reader , 1889
• The Search for the Alchemical Formula , 1892
• The Card Players , 1893
• At the lawyer’s office , 1894
• Old friends
• Baptism
• The bibliophiles
• Payment of the rent
• The painter's studio
• On Holiday
• Sunday afternoon service
• Divided
• The telegraph wire
• The Politicians , Victoria and Albert Museum
• The Family Bible , 1860s, Victoria and Albert Museum
• The Chess Players , Victoria and Albert Museum
• At home
• Caught
• Old memories
• The lute player
• Interesting read
• The game of chess
• The dice players
• The advocacy group
• Interior of a castle kitchen

literature

• Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 548 ( digitized version )
• Ekkehard Mai : Life pictures - genre painting of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-756-2 .

Web links

Commons : Charles Meer Webb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Charles Meer Webb , auction results on the portal artnet.de
• Charles Meer Webb (1830–1895) - oil on mahogany wood, "The Lute Player", 2nd half of the 19th century , synopsis and short biography on the auktionshaus-aldag.de portal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 442
2. ↑ Chess: the game of great minds , website in the portal kunst-und-spiele.de , accessed on September 6, 2015
3. ^ Johann Gudden, father of Bernhard von Gudden ?
4. ^ Webb, Charles Meer (1830–1895): 'Portrait of J. Gudden as a pipe smoker' , website in the portal auktion-huell.de , accessed on September 6, 2015
5. ↑ News from the Front , website in the shinxfineart.com portal , accessed on September 6, 2015