Shipping and Boats in the Mersey

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Callow was born in London, the son of a carpenter. In 1835 became a pupil of his brother, watercolourist William Callow (already an established artist), in Paris. John began his studies by copying works at the Louvre. He returned to London in 1843/44 and exhibited at several institutions: most frequently at the Society of Painters in Water Colours. He also made illustrations for school books by Irish educationist Vere Foster. In 1855, he became a professor of drawing at Addiscombe College. After its’ closure in 1861 he was appointed a landscape drawing master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in 1875 he accepted a position at Queen’s College, London. Callow died at the age of 55, at his home in Lewisham High Road, Deptford.

Places

England, Liverpool, Merseyside, River Mersey

Subjects

rowing boat, sailor (civilian), topography, townscape/cityscape, seagull, river, wave, steamboat, sailboat, anchor

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

John Callow (1822 - 1878)

Title

Shipping and Boats in the Mersey

Date

1847

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, April 1963

Inscription

bl: Callow 1847

GAC number

6045