Francis Danby

Francis Danby (born November 16, 1793 in Killinick , † February 9, 1861 in Exmouth ( Devonshire )) was an Irish landscape painter .

Life

Lake at sunset , around 1835

Francis was born in the south of Ireland , in Killinick, near the town of Wexford . When his father died, he moved to Dublin with his family . At the royal schools in Dublin he practiced drawing landscape paintings. He met the future painter George Petrie and went to London with him and his art teacher O'Connor in 1813 . After a short stay, he left London and went to Bristol . There his large illustrations in oil quickly attracted attention.

His two sons James Francis Danby (1816–1875) and Thomas Danby (1817–1886) also became well-known landscape painters.

Works (selection)

Liensfijord Lake in Norway , 1841

• Panorama of the coast at sunset , around 1813
• The Upas Tree , 1820
• Boy sailing a small ship , 1822
• The Delivery of the Israelites , 1825
• Scene from the Merchant of Venice , 1827
• The opening of the sixth seal , 1828
• The tombs of Molière and La Fontaine , 1831
• Scene from Dream of a Midsummer Night , 1832
• Lake at sunset , around 1835
• The Deluge , 1837 to 1839, Tate Gallery , London.
• Liensfijord Lake in Norway , 1841.
• The wooden hymn of the nymph to the rising sun , 1845

literature

• Eric Adams: Francis Danby, varieties of poetic landscape . Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, New Haven CT et al. 1973, ISBN 0-300-01538-0 , ( Studies in British art ).
• Edward Malins, Morchard Bishop (di: Oliver Stonor): James Smetham and Francis Danby. Two 19th century Romantic painters . Eric and Joan Stevens, London 1974, ISBN 0-9502351-1-3 .
• Francis Greenacre: Francis Danby. 1793-1861 . Tate Gallery in association with the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, London 1988, ISBN 1-85437-000-6 .

Web links

Commons : Francis Danby  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Francis Danby at Google Arts & Culture