Francis Danby

Francis Danby ( born November 16, 1793 in Killinick, † February 9, 1861 in Exmouth ( Devonshire ) ) was an Irish landscape painter.

Life

Francis was in the south of Ireland, in Killinick, near the town of Wexford, was born. When his father died, he moved with his family to Dublin. At the Royal Schools in Dublin he practiced in the drawing of landscape paintings. He learned later the painter George Petrie know and went with him and his art teacher O'Connor in 1813 to London. After a short stay he left London and went to Bristol. There quickly caught his large pictures in oil attention.

His two sons, James Francis Danby (1816-1875) and Thomas Danby (1817-1886) were well-known landscape painter.

Works (selection)

  • Panorama of the coast at sunset, about 1813
  • The Upas Tree, 1820
  • Boy who sails a small boat, 1822
  • The delivery of the Israelites, 1825
  • Scene from the Merchant of Venice, 1827
  • The opening of the sixth seal, 1828
  • The graves of Molière and La Fontaine, 1831
  • Scene of a Midsummer Night's Dream, 1832
  • Lake at sunset, 1835
  • Liensfijord lake in Norway, 1841
  • The wooden Hymn of the nymph to the rising sun, 1845
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