Bergen – Boreal Crown

Location

Country: Norway
City: Oslo
Place: British Embassy

Watercolour painter and engraver Charles Bentley is best-known for painting breezy scenes off the English coast. He was born in London; the son of a master carpenter. Bentley was apprenticed to printmaker Theodore Fielding and later spent time in Paris with Theodore’s brother, watercolourist Newton Fielding. From 1827 Bentley made a modest living as an engraver and illustrator. He was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours (1843) and exhibited 209 works from 1834 to his death. He was a friend of artist William Callow; with whom he made several sketching trips, including a tour of Normandy (1841). The two shared a home in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, from 1843 to 1846. Bentley died in Hampstead, at the age of 48.

Places

North Sea, Norway, Bergen

Subjects

topography, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, aurora borealis, mountain, house, paddle steamer, sailboat, buoy

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Charles E de Beaumont (1821 - 1888)
Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)

Title

Bergen – Boreal Crown

Date

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, April 1951

GAC number

1273