Off Dover

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Watercolourist William Callow was born in Greenwich; the son of a master builder. At eleven he began working with landscapist Theodore Fielding. In 1829 he was sent to Paris to work with Fielding’s brother, Newton, before establishing his own atelier and later giving lessons to the family of King Louis Philippe. From the 1830s, he made regular walking and sketching tours through France, Germany and Switzerland. In 1841 he returned to London, where he became one of the best-known drawing masters. He was elected a full member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1848 and continued to teach until 1882. Callow married twice, but had no children. A retrospective of his work was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1907. He died aged 95.

Places

England, Dover, Kent, English Channel

Subjects

topography, seascape/coastal scene, sea, wave, sailboat, ship

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

William Callow (1812 - 1908)

Title

Off Dover

Date

1860

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 51.00 cm, width: 80.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964

Inscription

sdbr

Provenance

Collection of actor and art collector Gilbert Davis (1899-1983) (and on loan to the Ministry of Works from 1952); from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in July 1964

GAC number

1763