Charles Stuart (landscape painter)

Charles Stuart F.S.A. (1838–1907) was an English landscape painter who was active from 1881 to 1904.[1]

Life and family

Charles Stuart was born in 1838 to William and Amelia Stuart, both artists.[2] Other Stuart family members were also artists including his brother William who immigrated to Australia in 1859.[3]

In 1860, Stuart exhibited a work entitled Fair and Fruitful Italy (and J. M. Bowkett) at the Royal Society of British Artists.[2] The 'J. M. Bowkett' was the artist Jane Maria Bowkett, and two years later, after obtaining a special licence, the couple married at West Ham on 6 February, 1862, with their first child, Leila Imogene, born four months later.[2] The couple had six children but only Leila Imogene, Charles Edward Gordon, born 1865, and William Arthur, born 1869, survived infancy.[2]

The Stuarts spent the early years of their marriage living with Charles' parents in Stepney and Gravesend before making their homes in South Kensington and Fulham Road, in the mid-1870s, and then moving to the fashionable Melbury Road, Holland Park, in 1880.[2][1] Around this time Stuart was nominated for the London gentlemen's club the Savage, and is depicted, with fellow members in a frontispiece illustration to a 1907 club history.[4] Stuart was also a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

In 1903 Stuart had two paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy and an exhibition of 52 works was held at a private gallery in Bristol.[5]

Stuart's wife, Jane, died on 1 June 1891, and Stuart survived her by 16 years. He was buried with her at Kensal Green Cemetery.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Graves, Algernon (1906). The Royal Academy of Arts A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from Its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. Volume VII Saco to Tofano, page 295: Henry Graves and Co. Ltd. and George Bell and Sons.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Laycock, Kathleen Mary (2009-12-17). Out of obscurity: the artist Jane Maria Bowkett (1837-1891). Victoria, Canada: University of Victoria. pp. 12–25. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  3. ↑ Watson, Michael J. (1992). "William Stuart". Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  4. ↑ Watson, Aaron; Twain, Mark (1907). The Savage Club : a medley of history, anecdote, and reminiscence. London: T. Fisher Unwin. Retrieved 2014-08-15.
  5. ↑ "Mr Charles Stuart's Pictures". Western Daily Press. 14 May 1903. Retrieved 17 December 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
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