Portsmouth

Location

Country: Luxembourg
City: Luxembourg
Place: British Embassy

John Wilson Carmichael was born in Newcastle upon Tyne; the son of a shipwright. He spent his early teenage years at sea, before being apprenticed to a firm of Newcastle shipbuilders. From 1825 he showed paintings at the Northumberland Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts and its successors. Sets of engravings, based on his works, were published in 1828-30, 1832 and 1836-38. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy, Society of British Artists and British Institution and moved to London in 1846, settling in Bloomsbury. From May to August 1855 he worked for the ‘Illustrated London News’. Windsor and Newton commissioned two artist’s handbooks from him (published 1859, 1865). He moved to Scarborough in 1865, where he died aged 68.

Places

England, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Portsmouth Harbour

Subjects

rudder, mast, rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, seagull, sea, man, flag, sailor (navy), house, church, tower, sailboat, ship

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

John Wilson Carmichael (1799 - 1868)
Jonathan Needham
Auguste François Laby (1784 - 1860)

Title

Portsmouth

Date

published 1849

Medium

Colour lithograph

Dimensions

height: 55.00 cm, width: 75.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Parker Gallery, March 1958

GAC number

4593