Samuel Walters

Samuel Walters ( born November 1, 1811 in London, † March 5, 1882 in Liverpool) was the most prominent English marine painter in the most important port in Great Britain of his time.

Life

Samuel Walters is the son of Miles Walters (1773 - 1855), a master craftsman and marine painter, who came from Ilfracombe in Devon. Through the activities of his father as a gilder and picture frame maker and the London Docks, the boy was affected and he did an apprenticeship with his father. In 1826, father and son went for a year in the port city of Bristol before they moved on to Liverpool. In 1827 they painted their first joint ship image. The collaboration of the two artists, in the next six years, about 40 images. Miles Walters stopped in the middle of 1830 years to paint.

Samuel Walters presented in 1830 at the Liverpool Academy of Arts his first painting entitled Dutch Boats in a Fresh Breeze from. In 1831 he became a member of the Royal Institution in Liverpool. He was co-opted member of the Academy in 1837 and became a full member in 1841. Since 1842 until 1861 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London, even took up residence in the years 1845-1847 to London. This year, he returned to Liverpool to live in Bootle and work. His paintings were so popular that he had to customize many scenes prints and lithographs later.

In Liverpool museums depend more than 10 of his paintings, and works from the collaborative work with his father. Of the 99 paintings exhibited Walters in 35 years in the Academy in Liverpool, are today many are privately owned.

At Walker's works

After the great hurricane on 7 and 8 January 1839 Walters painted several pictures with ship scenes, the bailouts for the passengers of the sand banks accumulated before Liverpool ships show: Once The Loss of "Pennsylvania ", New York Packet Ship, the " Lockwood " ' Emigrant Ship, the " Saint Andrew" Packet Ship, and " Victoria " from Charleston near Liverpool and secondly The "Victoria" Steam Tug and the magazines Life Boat Rescuing Passengers from the " Saint Andrews " Packet Ship in the Hurricane of 8th January 1839.

1850 Walters painted a three-part series about a maritime disaster of 1848, The Burning of the Ocean Monarch.

A painting, The Ship Frankfield off Table Bay from the period around 1850, for example, was in 2010 auctioned off at Christie's in London from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

Two paintings from the 1860s show the blockade runner CSS Florida and CSS Alabama. In 1872 he painted the American Clipper Lucy S. Wills when passing to the Skerries off the island of Anglesey in North Wales. In a late work Unloading a Stranded Ship, Bootle Bay, he shows a scene from his home in Liverpool.

Publication

• Four lithographs showing his paintings. Henry Lacey, Liverpool 1839.