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CHAMBERS, GEORGE (1803-1840)

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CHAMBERS, See also:GEORGE (1803-1840) , See also:English marine painter, See also:born at See also:Whitby, See also:Yorkshire, was the son of a See also:seaman, and for several years he pursued his See also:father's calling. While at See also:sea he was in the See also:habit of sketching the different classes of vessels. His See also:master, observing this, gratified him by cancelling his indentures, and thus set him See also:free to follow his natural See also:bent. Chambers then apprenticed himself to an old woman who kept a painter's See also:shop in Whitby, and began by See also:house-See also:painting. He also took lessons of a See also:drawing-master, and found a ready See also:sale for small and cheap pictures of See also:shipping. Coming afterwards to See also:London, he was employed by See also:Thomas See also:Horner to assist in painting the See also:great See also:panorama of London for the Colosseum (the See also:exhibition See also:building in See also:Regent's See also:Park, demolished towards 186o), and he next became See also:scene-painter at the See also:Pavilion See also:theatre. In 1834 he was elected an See also:associate, and in 1836 a full member, of the See also:Water-See also:colour Society. His best See also:works represent See also:naval battles. Two of these—the " See also:Bombardment of See also:Algiers in 1816," and the " See also:Capture of See also:Porto See also:Bello "—are in See also:Greenwich See also:hospital. Not See also:long before his See also:death he was introduced to See also:William IV., and his professional prospects brightened; but his constitution, always frail, gave way, and he died on the 28th of See also:October 184o. A See also:Life, by See also:John See also:Watkins, was published in 1841.

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