17-562: John Charles Dollman RWS RI ROI (6 May 1851 – 11 December 1934) was an English painter and illustrator. Dollman was born in Hove on 6 May 1851 and moved to London to study at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools , after which he set up a studio at Bedford Park, London , designed for him by Maurice Bingham Adams . He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1870 to 1912, and
34-690: A 'soft launch' in May 2022 with an exhibition of watercolours by RWS Member David Remfry . The RWS now holds exhibitions at both Bankside Gallery and the Whitcomb Street Gallery. The 75 Members choose new Associates each year in a rigorous election procedure. Associates are entitled to use the initials ARWS after their names. Full membership is granted following a show of hands at an AGM. The Society's education programme includes practical courses tutored by members and drop-in family event days as well as talks and discussions. The archive and diploma collection
51-566: A diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of watercolour. Its members, or associates, use the post-nominal initials RWS and ARWS (associate member). They are elected by the membership, with typically half a dozen new associates joining the Society each year. The society was founded as the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1804 by William Frederick Wells . Its original membership
68-537: A girl surrounded by chimps and Orpheus and his Lute with Lions . He also produced bold compositions of animals and people such as Robinson Crusoe and His Man Friday , Polo and Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log (1903). His best known work is possibly A London Cab Stand (1888), focussing on a group of horses in a stormy scene. He composed at least three variants of this picture, and there are other instances where he made copies or near-copies of individual pictures. In
85-761: A schism created another group, the New Society for Painters in Water Colours, and so the 1804 group became known as the Old Water Colour Society , and just the Old Society . The New Society subsequently became the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours , which still exists today. The Old Society obtained its Royal charter 1881 under the presidency of Sir John Gilbert as the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours . In 1988, it changed its name again to
102-657: Is available for research. Current members include Sonia Lawson , Elizabeth Blackadder , Richard Bawden , Robin Richmond , and David Remfry . The current president Charles Williams was elected in 2023. William Frederick Wells William Frederick Wells (1762 – 10 November 1836) was a British watercolour landscape painter and etcher . Wells was born in London in 1762. Wells studied art in London under John James Barralet (1747–1815). On 20 November 1804, Wells initiated
119-800: Is in the Laing Art Gallery , Newcastle . A London Cab Stand is in the Museum of London . A Dog's Home, Table d'Hote (1879) is in the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and During the Time of the Sermonses (1896), an odd picture of a pair of religious people approaching two golfers, is in the collection of the Harris Museum , Preston , while 'Famine' (1904) is at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery . Ride of
136-624: The Royal Watercolour Society , by which it had always previously been generally known. The Royal Watercolour Society was founded to promote watercolour as a medium in all its applications. The Society defines a 'watercolour' as a work made in any water-based paint on paper. The RWS holds regular exhibitions presenting the finest in British contemporary works on paper. Exhibitions are held at Bankside Gallery and also tour outside London. The new RWS Gallery at Whitcomb Street opened its doors for
153-550: The 1890s he painted pictures of soldiers, and some less well regarded genre pictures of people with animals. He also painted wild animal pictures without attempting any narrative content. Dollman's works are in the collections of various galleries. The Immigrants' Ship (1884) is in the Art Gallery of South Australia , Adelaide . 'The Ravager' is owned by the Trustees of the Royal Watercolour Society , London. A version of The Unknown
170-515: The University of Cambridge, and later sold by Christie's , on behalf of a private owner, for £40,000 in 2014. Dollman died in London on 11 December 1934, aged 83. He was the father of the noted zoologist and taxonomist Guy Dollman . Royal Watercolour Society The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours . The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for
187-721: The Valkyries is located in the Art Gallery of Western Australia , Perth . His painting of Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates as he walked to his death, A Very Gallant Gentleman , hangs in the Cavalry Club in London. It was commissioned by officers of the Inniskilling Dragoons in 1913. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1914. A preparatory sketch was exhibited in the Scott Polar Research Institute , at
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#1732876883214204-637: The founding of the Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Watercolour Society ), at a meeting held at the Stratford Coffee House, Oxford St, London. He served as President of the fledgling association from 1806 to 1807. He travelled and painted extensively in England and Europe, particularly in Norway and Sweden . Wells' art was annually exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1795 to 1813. He held
221-578: The original publication dates removed from these). Amongst Wells's other works as an etcher is his soft-ground set, Select Views in Cumberland (1810). In 1819, Wells moved to a house on Mitcham Common , Surrey . He died there on 10 November 1836, and was buried in Mitcham churchyard. Wells married his wife, Mary, in about 1786. The couple had nine children (three sons and six daughters), of whom two died in infancy. Mary died in 1807. In his will, Wells left
238-562: The post of Professor of Drawing at Addiscombe Military Seminary for officers of the East India Company Army over twenty years from 1813 until his retirement, immediately before his death, in November 1836. Wells was an intimate friend of Joseph Mallord William Turner . Between 1801 and 1805 Wells and his collaborator John Laporte made seventy-two soft-ground etchings after drawings by Thomas Gainsborough (thirty-three by Laporte,
255-484: The remainder by Wells). They initially issued these etchings as individual plates, upon completion of each (thus bearing publication dates ranging from 1802 to 1805), and then as hand-coloured and bound sets under the title A Collection of Prints, illustrative of English Scenery, from the Drawings and Sketches of Gainsborough ( circa 1805; reissued in 1819 by the publisher H.R. Young but with only around sixty-two plates and
272-489: Was William Sawrey Gilpin , Robert Hills , John Claude Nattes , John Varley , Cornelius Varley , Francis Nicholson , Samuel Shelley , William Henry Pyne and Nicholas Pocock . The members seceded from the Royal Academy where they felt that their work commanded insufficient respect and attention. In 1812, the Society reformed as the Society of Painters in Oil and Watercolours , reverting to its original name in 1820. In 1831
289-473: Was elected RWS (Member of the Royal Watercolour Society ) in 1913. Dollman was also an illustrator, working in black and white or colour for magazines such as The Graphic during and after the 1880s. Some of his early work has been said to have influenced Van Gogh . A central theme was ambitious mythological pictures such as a Viking Foray , a Viking horde entitled the Ravager , The Unknown (1912), featuring
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