Salmon Traps, near Eggersund

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

Norway

Subjects

topography, Victorian Genre, salmon, mountain, river, stone/rock, waterfall, man, fishing net

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

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

Title

Salmon Traps, near Eggersund

Portfolio Title

Sketches in Norway

Date

c1852

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, April 1951

GAC number

1276