Samuel Walters
Samuel Walters (born November 1, 1811 in London , † March 5, 1882 in Liverpool ) was the most important English marine painter in the most important port city in Great Britain of his time.
Life
Samuel Walters is the son of Miles Walters (1773–1855), a master craftsman and marine painter from Ilfracombe in Devon . The boy was influenced by his father's activities as a gilder and picture frame maker and the London docks, so that he did an apprenticeship with his father. In 1826 father and son went to the port city of Bristol for a year before moving on to Liverpool. In 1827 they painted their first picture of a ship together. The collaboration between the two artists resulted in around 40 pictures over the next six years. Miles Walters stopped painting in the mid 1830s.
Samuel Walters exhibited his first painting, Dutch Boats in a Fresh Breeze, at the Liverpool Academy of Arts in 1830 . In 1831 he became a member of the Royal Institution in Liverpool. He became an associate member of the Academy in 1837 and became a full member in 1841. From 1842 to 1861 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London, even moving to London from 1845 to 1847. That year he returned to Liverpool to live and work in Bootle . His pictures were so popular that he had engravings and later lithographs made of many scenes .
More than 10 of his paintings or works from the collaborative work with his father hang in Liverpool museums . Of the 99 paintings that Walters exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 35 years, many are now privately owned.
About Walker's works
After the great hurricane on January 7th and 8th, 1839, Walters painted several pictures with ship scenes showing rescue operations for the passengers of the ships that ran aground on the sandbanks off Liverpool: Once The Loss of "Pennsylvania", New York Packet Ship, the "Lockwoods" 'Emigrant Ship, the "Saint Andrew" Packet Ship, and "Victoria" from Charleston near Liverpool and, second, The "Victoria" Steam Tug and the Magazine Life Boat Rescuing Passengers from the "Saint Andrews" Packet Ship in the Hurricane of 8th January 1839 .
In 1850 Walters painted a three-part series about a ship disaster in 1848 The Burning of the Ocean Monarch .
For example, a painting, The Ship Frankfield off Table Bay from around 1850, was auctioned at Christie's in London in 2010 from the bankruptcy estate of Lehman Brothers .
Two paintings from the 1860s show the blockade breakers Florida and Alabama . In 1872 he painted the American clipper Lucy S. Wills while driving past the Skerries off the island of Anglesey in north Wales . In a late work Unloading a Stranded Ship, Bootle Bay he shows a scene from his home near Liverpool.
publication
- Four lithographs depicting his paintings. Henry Lacey, Liverpool 1839.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ from August 10, 2010, page 21: Lehman under the hammer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walters, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1882 |
| Place of death | Liverpool |