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DANBY, FRANCIS (1793-1861)
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See also:DANBY, See also:FRANCIS (1793-1861) , See also:English painter, was See also:born in the See also:south of See also:Ireland on the 16th of See also:November 1793. His See also:father farmed a small See also:property he owned near See also:Wexford, but his See also:death caused the See also:family to remove to See also:Dublin, while Francis was still a schoolboy. He began to practice See also:drawing at the Royal Dublin Society's See also:schools; and under an erratic See also:young artist named O'See also:Connor he began See also:painting landscape. Danby also made acquaintance with See also:George See also:Petrie, and all three See also:left for See also:London together in 1813. This expedition, undertaken with very in-adequate funds, quickly came to an end, and they had to get See also:home again by walking. At See also:Bristol they made a pause, and Danby, finding he could get trifling sums for See also:water-See also:colour drawings, remained there working diligently and sending to the London exhibitions pictures of importance. There his large pictures in oil quickly attracted See also:attention. " The See also:Upas See also:Tree " (1820) and " The Delivery of the Israelites " (1825) brought him his See also:election as an See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy. He left Bristol for London, and in 1828 exhibited his " Opening of the See also:Sixth See also:Seal " at the See also:British Institution, receiving from that See also:body a See also:prize of 200 guineas; and this picture was followed by two others from the See also:Apocalypse. He suddenly left London, declaring that he would never live there again, and that the Academy, instead of aiding him, had, somehow or other, used him badly. Some insurmountable domestic difficulty overtook him also, and for eleven or twelve years he lived on the See also:Lake of See also:Geneva, a
Bohemian with See also:boat-See also:building fancies, painting only now and then. He returned to See also:England in 1841, when his sons, See also: Other pictures by him were " The See also:Golden See also:Age " and " The Evening See also:Gun," the first begun before he left England, the second painted after his return; he had taken up his See also:abode at See also:Exmouth, where he died on the 9th of See also:February 1861. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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