Decorative Beach Scene

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Watercolourist Samuel Phillips Jackson was born in Bristol; the son of watercolour painter Samuel Jackson (1794-1869). He trained under his father and attended life classes at the Bristol Fine Arts Academy. Jackson exhibited in London at the British Institution, the Royal Academy and the Old Watercolour Society, of which he became the youngest ever member, aged 22. He exhibited some 841 watercolours at the society's exhibitions. In 1858 Jackson visited Switzerland with his father. He never married and his closest companions remained his dogs. When he died in Clifton, Bristol, at the age of 73, he left bequests to two canine charities.

Places

Subjects

fisherman, rest/sleep, fishing rod, seascape/coastal scene, horse, mountain, hill, stone/rock, sea, beach, wave, boy, basket, house, ship

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Samuel Phillips Jackson (1830 - 1904)

Title

Decorative Beach Scene

Date

1857

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 59.00 cm, width: 82.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1967

Inscription

bl (indistinct): S P Jackson 1857

GAC number

7587