Bergen

Location

Country: Norway
City: Oslo
Place: British Embassy

George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson was born in Cobh, County Cork. He initially worked as a ship’s carpenter and later became Government Surveyor of Shipping and Emigrants in Cobh. Atkinson turned to painting in his mid-thirties and was entirely self-taught. A contemporary commentator later noted that his paintings of ships were ‘faultless in every detail’. In 1849, he held a one-man exhibition in a pavilion in Cobh, marking the visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in that year. He also recorded the royal visit through several paintings. Atkinson had three sons and a daughter, all of whom followed in their father’s footsteps in becoming painters.

Places

North Sea, Norway, Bergen

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, mountain, river, harbour, house, sailboat, ship, buoy

Materials & Techniques

colour lithograph

Artist

George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (c1806 - 1884)
George Mounsey Atkinson ( - 1908)

Title

Bergen

Portfolio Title

Sketches in Norway

Date

c1852

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, April 1951

GAC number

1274