Artist: William Anderson ((1757-1837)
Entitled: Ready to set Sail
Size: 20 x 25cm
Description: Oil on Panel, Signed & Dated 1796, Contemporary Frame
Price: SOLD
Little known of his early life except that he was born in Scotland and became a Shipwright.
He also learned to be a very finished painter, and about his thirtieth year he made his way South to London and set up as a Marine Painter. His Style is firmly based on the Dutch 17th.Century School and though he lived well into the 19th. Century, he never made any concessions to the Romantic Movement. Although he painted some large Canvases he is best known for his Small, sometimes rather vapid calms, which sold very well, and still do.
He first exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1787, and at The British Institute in 1810, not all his Exhibited paintings were Marines. In 1833 his exhibit at The British Institute was a "Battle of Waterloo". At The Royal Academy in 1824 he Exhibited a View of Berwick-on-Tweed, and another of Tynemouth, which indicates the date that he journeyed to the North-East; Here he became an Influence on the Hull School of Painters and particularly on the best of them, Young John Ward, who copied at least one of his paintings of Greenwich Reach. Anderson's last major Exhibit at The Royal Academy, in 1834 was a Major work "Lord Howe's Fleet at Spitehead". He died in London on 27th. May 1837. He was a friend of Julius Caesar Ibbotson, who is believed to have collaborated with him on some paintings.
He had a Son, William Guido Anderson, who joined The Royal Navy and was mortally wounded at The Battle of Copenhagen in 1801; he was a Midshipman on The "Bellona"
Examples of his work can be seen @
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (9)
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (1)
Yale Centre of British Art, Newhaven, Connecticut. (3)
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (1)
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