Artists

JOHN DAWSON WATSON (1832-1892)

Medium

Watercolour heightened with bodycolour

Dimensions:

19.50cm wide   24.50cm high (7.68 inches wide  9.65 inches high)

Description / Expertise

Watson studied at Manchester School of Design and the Royal Academy Schools. A follower of the Pre-Raphaelites, he first exhibited in Manchester in 1851 but when Ford Madox Brown invited him to exhibit at his house in London in 1856 he decided to settle in London. He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere. Painting in both oil and watercolour, his subjects were usually small genre scenes, often of children. He was also a prolific and notable illustrator for books and periodicals. In 1865 he moved to Milford in Surrey, where he made designs for the furniture of the house of the watercolourist Myles Birket Foster, his brother-in-law.

Works by John Dawson Watson are in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and in many other public collections.

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