Christmas Cataract on the River Berbice

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Watercolour painter and engraver Charles Bentley is best-known for painting breezy scenes off the English coast. He was born in London; the son of a master carpenter. Bentley was apprenticed to printmaker Theodore Fielding and later spent time in Paris with Theodore’s brother, watercolourist Newton Fielding. From 1827 Bentley made a modest living as an engraver and illustrator. He was elected a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours (1843) and exhibited 209 works from 1834 to his death. He was a friend of artist William Callow; with whom he made several sketching trips, including a tour of Normandy (1841). The two shared a home in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, from 1843 to 1846. Bentley died in Hampstead, at the age of 48.

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Materials & Techniques

Artist

Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)
Paul Gauci (1800 - 1855)

Title

Christmas Cataract on the River Berbice

Date

published 3 August 1840

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, July 1966

GAC number

7518