James Sowerby - A Duck - B1978.43.37 - Yale Center for British Art
Summary
For the first part of his career, John Sowerby was the director of Sowerby’s Ellison Glass Works, one of the world’s largest producers of glass, and made a number of aesthetic innovations that helped boost sales. On the death of his father, in 1879, he continued at the firm, but began to produce children’s books and landscape watercolours and, when the company was sold in 1896, he focused on exhibiting his paintings. Combining keenly observed naturalistic detail and sophisticated decoration, they may be considered exemplars of Symbolist landscape, and have been compared to the work of the French artists, Alphonse Osbert and Henri Le Sidaner.
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drawings in the yale center for british art
george brettingham sowerby i
james de carle sowerby
james sowerby
london borough of lambeth
london
united kingdom
england
Date
1914
in collections
Source
Yale Center for British Art
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Copyright info
public domain