Fishermen at Dawn

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

George Chambers senior was born at Whitby, the son of a sailor. To support his family, he shipped aboard an uncle's Humber keel, aged ten. At twelve, he took an apprenticeship on a brig under Captain Storr, who recognised his talent for painting and released him. He became a house and ship painter in Whitby but also made ship portraits for captains and took lessons from a local drawing master. In c.1820 he settled in London, painting ships and scenery for the Pavilion Theatre. In 1830 he was commissioned by William IV to paint four pictures. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1836. Chambers travelled to Holland twice and, in 1840, to Madeira to recuperate from illness, dying shortly after his return.

Places

Subjects

fishing boat, fisherman, barrel, genre, seascape/coastal scene, dawn/sunrise, man, sailboat, buoy

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), pencil, chalk, chalk drawing, pencil drawing

Artist

George, Snr Chambers (1803 - 1840)

Title

Fishermen at Dawn

Date

Medium

Pencil and chalk on paper

Dimensions

height: 33.00 cm, width: 54.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sir Bruce Ingram, 1963

Provenance

Collection of journalist and newspaper editor Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963) and on loan to the Ministry of Works from 1952; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1963

GAC number

1569