James George Philp

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James George Philp (* 1816 in Falmouth , Cornwall ; † April 11, 1885 ibid) was an English landscape painter and lived in Falmouth.

Life

His parents were Henry and Elizabeth Philp. They came from Falmouth, where James George Philp was born in 1816 and spent most of his life. It was there that he first drew attention to himself as an artist when he won first prize in second class at the annual exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1834 with his oil painting Marine View from Pendennis . Other awards followed for View of Falmouth and View of St Michael's Mount (1835; bronze medal). Philp later served as a member of the jury. In 1836 he moved with his family to Bristol , in 1841 they lived in Budock after the death of their father .

Philps pictures were taken almost exclusively in Devon and Cornwall , whereby he developed a particular preference for coastal views. After he moved to London in 1846 , he exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts for the first time that same year . There were two landscape paintings in oil. After that, however, he mainly devoted himself to watercolor painting . In 1856 he was an extraordinary and in 1863 a full member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colors . From 1848 to 1885 he exhibited a total of 364 works in London, nine of them at exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, five at the Society of British Artists (Suffolk Street) and 348 at the New Watercolor Society.

Around 1851 Philp lived in Falmout again, with his mother and 19-year-old sister Mary, who worked as a drawing teacher. Later they can be traced back in Budock. Philp also stayed in Wales several times in the early 1860s . In 1861 he married Mary Jane Powell in Clifton. They lived in Falmouth around 1881 with their son George and relatives. Philp died there in 1885.

literature

  • Joachim Busse: International manual of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century: Busse directory. Busse, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 , p. 972.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Vol. VIII, Gründ, Paris 1976, p. 289.
  • Philp, James George. In: The Dictionary of Victorian Painters; Dictionary of British Art. Volume IV. Christopher Wood Ltd., Woodbridge 1971, ISBN 0-902028-72-3 , p. 369.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b James George Philp cornwallartists.org. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  2. ^ A b Philp, James George In: Frederic Boase (Ed.): Modern English Biography. Volume 6, Frank Cass, London 1965, p. 393.
personal data
SURNAME Philp, James George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Falmouth , Cornwall
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1885
Place of death Falmouth , Cornwall