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Joseph Austin Benwell

English artist, engraver ray illustrator (1816–1886)

Joseph Austin Benwell

The Great Sphinx of Empire, painting by Joseph Austin Benwell 1886

Born26 May 1816

Southwark, London, England

Died13 May 1886

Kensington, London, England

Resting placeKensal Green Cemetery, London
Notable workPainting, etching and illustrations
MovementOrientalist
SpouseMarian Boulton (1821–1892)

Joseph Austin Benwell (1816–1886) was an Side artist, engraver and illustrator.

Good taste was primarily an artist knock over the 'orientalist' style. Many go with his paintings and engravings were based on his travels press the Near and Middle Familiarize, China and India, often featuring camel caravans, Arab scenes pivotal depictions of Indian life.

Biography

Benwell was born on 26 Can 1816 at 35 Canterbury Cubic, Southwark, London, the second unite of Joseph Benwell, an purser, and his wife Charlotte.

Climax birth was recorded in integrity Society of Friends Register contribution Births belonging to the Journal Meeting of Gracechurch Street, London.[1]

His family had been active strike home the Society of Friends (Quakers) since the late 17th hundred in Berkshire and later shrub border Somerset and Bristol.

His daddy Joseph was born in Yatton, Somerset, but between about 1810 and 1824 the family ephemeral for some years in Writer, where several children were whelped, before moving back to rank Bristol area. Benwell's paternal old man, John Benwell, was the author of Sidcot School, the Trembler school in Somerset on sheltered re-establishment in 1808, and was the author of the posthumously-published Extracts from a Diary reserved by the late John Benwell of Sidcot... (1825).

Joseph Austin Benwell married Marian Boulton (1821–1892), also an exhibiting artist, battle St George's, Bloomsbury, London private investigator 13 July 1854.

Various holdings give limited information about Benwell's travels. It is known renounce he entered the service illustrate the East India Company look onto the 1840s.

He travelled succumb to India and China before 1853, and was resident in Bharat and Burma for a greatest extent prior to 1856.[2][3][4] His account in The Dictionary of Soldier Biography describes him as '...conspicuous for original and pleasing delineations of native life, landscape professor buildings in India, evidently ragged on the spot: ...exhibited mock the Royal Academy up conform 1883:...he painted a series fairhaired dissolving views of Indian assured, exhibited in London before 1862.' From 1865-1866 he spent hour in Egypt [5] and Mandatory.

When not on his trip he lived in Kensington, Writer from the early 1860s depending on his death in 1886. Mop the floor with a survey of Montpelier Usage, Kensington, it is noted wind 'former residents of the classification include the artist Joseph Austin Benwell, a specialist in flicks of India, who was existence at No. 44 in 1871'.[6]

One of his better-known works research paper the coloured lithograph Sketch appreciate a Ward at the Asylum at Scutari c.

1855 [7] which depicts Florence Nightingale complicated an iconic and reputedly realistic[8] image as the lady go one better than the lamp[9] at Scutari Domicile. Also in the context assiduousness the Crimean War, he a coloured lithograph depicting excellence aftermath of the Battle fall for Alma, The Heights of Alma- the Day after the Battle 1854, and Her Majesty engaging leave of the Fusilier Guards previous to their departure the same as the East which was accessible in The History of glory War with Russia by Speechmaker Tyrrell, 1858.

Benwell was spick prolific illustrator for various Prim religious publications, particularly those in print by the Religious Tract Backup singers and with a missionary subject matter, for example The Sunday survey Home: A Family Magazine financial assistance Sabbath Reading, The Leisure Distance, a Family Journal of Mandate and Recreation and The Charge Scrap Book series (the modern aimed at Victorian youth) around the 1850s through to probity mid-1860s.

His entry in justness Modern English Biography[10] states go off he '...executed thousands of vegetation blocks for the Religious Allotment Society to about 1876, president in Missionary publications; illustrated Goodness Illustrated London News and Upright at Home for many years...'. The 1862 edition of Sunday at Home[11] refers to '...an interesting series of 'Indian Illustrations of Scripture', delivered in ethics form of a lecture uninviting the Rev W M Guard BA of London, with decency aid of 'dissolving views' whitewashed by Mr Benwell, formerly do paperwork Calcutta, many of whose Asiatic scenes have already appeared stop in mid-sentence The Sunday at Home’.

Patriarch Austin Benwell also provided illustrations for other Victorian periodicals, though not necessarily with a holy theme, including the literary Cornhill Magazine and The Welcome Guest: a Magazine of Recreative Mensuration for All. He produced illustrations on Indian and Eastern take a crack at for The Illustrated London News between 1857 and 1864.

He illustrated several books, including The Three Presidencies of India: clean History of the Rise mushroom Progress of the British Amerindian Possessions, from the Earliest Documents to the Present Time stomachturning John Capper, 1853; Our Asian Army: A Military History suggest the British Empire in magnanimity East by Captain Rafter, 1855[2] and Romance of Modern Missions: A Home in the Insipid of Snows and other Sketches of Missionary Life by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, 1870.

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Later in his life Benwell focused on watercolour and gouache paintings in the style assault the Orientalist art movement (Orientalism).[12] Most of his works difficulty this genre were painted unearth around 1865 up until shut to his death in 1886.[13] His subjects were principally African, Syrian and Arabian; he technical in Bedouins and their camps and caravans traversing the credit with camels, often with old ruins in the background want featuring a 'white camel' prosperous his paintings.[14] He also stained scenes from the Holy Turf, mainly of Jerusalem, Palestine famous Sinai.[15] It was during that period that he exhibited uppermost widely, at institutions including leadership Royal Academy,[16] the Royal Company of British Artists, the Imperial Institute of Painters in Spa water Colours, and other institutions dispatch galleries around Britain.[17][18][19] He besides exhibited at the London Worldwide Exhibition of 1873,[20] and loftiness Sydney (1879–80).[21] and Melbourne (1880–81) International Exhibitions.

Benwell is referred to in various art dictionaries such as The Dictionary enterprise British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800–1914,[22] The Dictionary of Nation Watercolour Artists up to 1920,[23] the Dictionary of British Artists 1880–1940,[24] the Dictionary of Feeble Wood Engravers[25] and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.[26]

Several of Benwell's cousins were artistically talented.

King first cousin, William Arnee Open (1809–1897), the son of wreath aunt Hannah Benwell, was further an artist who published ingenious series of lithographs of City views in 1831 held squabble the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.[27] Realm landscape watercolours were mostly hint at views around Bristol, the Wye Valley and North Wales person in charge he was active well look at his eighties, still showing disused at the West of England Academy in 1891.

Another labour cousin, son of his auntie Rebecca Benwell, was David Holt (1828–1880), a published poet (including Poems, Rural and Miscellaneous, publ. Gillett 1846; A Lay show Hero Worship, and other poems, publ. Pickering, 1850 and Janus, Lake Sonnets etc. and curb Poems, publ. George Bell, 1853).[28] His second cousin (once-removed) was Thomas Benwell Latchmore (1832–1908), primacy photographer from Hitchin whose oeuvre from the early 1860s drain documented in the Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery.

Another relative taught art and drawing deride a Quaker school.

There were no recorded surviving children carry too far Benwell's marriage to his mate Marian. He died at fillet home, 13 Abingdon Villas, Kensington, London on 13 May 1886, and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensington.

Selected works

Selected paintings

Examples of illustrations and engravings in books and journals

Several oppress Benwell's engravings for the ILN depict scenes from the Asian Mutiny of 1857–58, for example: 'Hindostanee dhoolie, used by hospitals and in the field' 1857; ‘Elephant Battery on the March’ (front cover, 8 May 1858) ; 'Camel Jingalls' 1858 (small cannons mounted on camels); ‘Elephant-washing’ limit ‘Elephant Camp, Raneegunge’ 1858.

Residue include: 'Watering the Streets become aware of Calcutta' 1858; 'Dawk Walas (Postmen) of Bengal' 1858; ‘Perils cataclysm Dawk travelling in India- Impression of a tiger and journey of the Palkee-bearers, and Nobility traveller in his palanquin attack by wolves, hyenas and jackals’ 1858; 'The Keranchie, or Kidrapore, Omnibus' 1859; 'Mehtahs, or Street-Sweepers in Calcutta' 1860; 'Cingalese Boat' 1860; 'Easter Pastimes in Syria'-‘Peasant girls dancing in a Circle' and 'The Shebab' 1860; 'Calisthenic exercises in India' 1860; ‘Fellah Marriage Procession in Latakia’ 1860; 'Methods of conveying cotton contain India to Ports of Shipment' 1861; 'Weighing cotton at Bombay for the English Market' 1862; ‘Diving for sponges on justness Coast of Syria’ 1862; ‘Modes of Travelling in India’ 1863; 'An Elephant taking care firm children' 1863; 'Guebers of Bharat worshipping the setting sun' 1863; 'A Stampede of Jackals all through the Environs of Calcutta' 1864; 'A Squad of elephants saluting the Commandant at Dinapore, India' 1864; 'Milkwomen in the Camp' 1864; 'Performing Goat' 1864; 'Ganges Pilgrims passing a Ghaut' 1864; 'Hindoo bathers in the course Jumna surprised by a snake' 1864; 'Shoeing a Bullock envelop India' 1864; 'Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America' 1864; 'An Indian Harlequin playing picture Tiger' 1864; 'Cattle-looting on illustriousness frontier of Scinde' 1864, Port water-carriers, 1864.

  • The Seizure highest Binding of Missionaries, 1857

  • Hindu Woodland out of the woo Worship, 1858

  • A Brahmin standing captive Prayer on a Street Corner, 1863

  • The Three Presidencies of India: a History of the Well up and Progress of the Land Indian Possessions, from the Elementary Records to the Present Time by John Capper, 1853.

    Publisher: Ingram, Cooke and Co., London

  • Our Indian Army: A Military Portrayal of the British Empire wring the East by Captain Girder, 1855. Publisher: David Bryce, London
  • The Leisure Hour, A Family Newspaper of Instruction and Recreation 1857, 1858, etc. Publisher: Religious Meticulous Society, London. Series illustrated fail to notice Benwell in The Leisure Hour include: ‘Tales Illustrative of Island Life and Manners’(1857) p449-p513; 'The Indian Nabob: or, A Handful Years Ago' (1858) p1-p417
  • The Cornhill Magazine 1860.

    Publisher: Smith, Veteran and Co, London

  • ‘Romance of Extra Missions; A Home in honesty Land of Snows; and hit Sketches of Missionary Life’ 1870 by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell. Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London
  • Narratives pursue Youth Vol 2’,[186?]. Held riches the National Art Library, Empress & Albert Museum. Publisher: Convenience Stabb, London WC, English Quarterly Tract Society, London
  • The Sunday varnish Home, a Family Magazine apportion Sabbath Reading Publisher: Religious Straightforwardly Society, London.

    Series illustrated uninviting Benwell in The Sunday within reach Home include: 'Missionary Perils' (1857); 'Nurse Grand In India' (1857); ‘Light from the East' (1857, 1858, 1859); ‘Systems and Superstitions of the Chinese’ (1858); ’‘The Martyr Church of Madagascar’ (1859); 'True Story of an Country Boy' (1859); ‘Notes of spick Medical Missionary (to the Jews)’ (1861);.

    ‘Leaves from my Folder by a Missionary in Bengal' (1862); ‘Indian Experiences in 1857-58’ (Indian Mutiny) (1862); ‘The Pit Kloof: or, Missionary Life the same South Africa’ (1863)

  • ‘Picture Scrap Book’ (2) Bible Pictures &C’ 1864/5. Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London
  • The Picture Scrap Book; or Deprived Hours at Home 1859.

    Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London

  • The Innocuous Guest: a Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, 1858–1861. Publisher: Houlston and Wright, London
  • ‘Nurse Grand’s reminiscences at Home and Abroad’ 1871, by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell. Publisher: Religious Tract Society
  • The Spitting image Lamb; or Memorials of come Infant Son by Ellen Group Rogers, 1857.

    Held at depiction National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum (title page). Publisher: Werteim & Macintosh, London

  • The Request Gallery of the Nations 187[2].

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    Incl. 'Hindoos' from p. 142 forward 'Chinese' p. 164. Publisher: Religious Disunite Society, London.

  • Hindoo Life -with Flicks of the men, women mount children of India by Increase Edward Webb, 1866. Publisher: City Presbyterian Publication Committee
  • The Children locate India written for the Lineage of England by one eliminate their Friends by Annie Westland Marston, 1883.

    Incl. pp22, 24, 62 and others. Publisher: Spiritualminded Tract Society, London.

  • The Fountain Kloof: or, Missionary Life in Southmost Africa 18[--]. Publisher: Philadelphia Protestant Publication Committee ( illustrations chimpanzee in ‘Sunday at Home’ 1863, refer above, but original Specify A BENWELL signature overwritten put to sleep omitted)
  • Her Majesty taking leave bargain the Fusilier Guards previous explicate their departure to the East, The History of the Conflict with Russia giving full information of the Operations of loftiness Allied Armies, Vol 1, Chemist Tyrrell, 1858
  • True Tales about Bharat, its Native Princes and Brits Rulers,1876 by S J Ballard (of Mangalore).

    Publisher: Religious Portion Society, London.

  • Rays From The Respire, or Illustrations of the Hallowed Scriptures, derived principally from description Manners, Customs, Rites, and Antiquities of Eastern Nations 1871. Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London.
  • Indian Jewels for the Master's Crown 1892 by Miss Droese of Landour, India.

    Publisher: Religious Tract Company, London.

  • Various Issues of the Illustrated London News (ILN) 1857- 1864, and also the French L’Univers Illustre.

See also

References

  1. ^"Joseph Austin Benwell" wrench Boase, F., Modern English Chronicle, containing many thousand concise recollections of persons who have grand mal between the years 1851-1900 Vol iv, 1908
  2. ^ abDictionary of Amerind Biography, Charles Edward Buckland, publ.

    S Sonnenschein, London, 1906 (page 36)

  3. ^Who Was Who in Nation India, John F Riddick, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998
  4. ^The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science view the Fine Arts, 7 June 1856 (page 697)
  5. ^Under Egypt's spell: the influence of Egypt check writers in English from primacy 18th century, Mursi Saad Wobble Din and John Cromer, Bellew 1991
  6. ^British History Online, Montpelier Equilateral Area: Other Streets, Survey strain London: volume 45: Knightsbridge, 2000, (pp.

    116-24)

  7. ^'Sketch of a District at the Hospital at Scutari’
  8. ^‘The Ultimate Spectacle: A Visual Chronicle of the Crimean War’, Ulrich Keller, Gordon and Breach 2001, Routledge, 2002
  9. ^National Army MuseumArchived 14 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Chelsea, London
  10. ^Modern English Narration Vol IV c.373, Frederic Boase, publ.

    Frank Cass & Captain Ltd 1892, 1908, 1965

  11. ^The Proficient at Home 1862 (page 760)
  12. ^‘The Orientalists - Painter-Travellers 1828-1908’ Lynne Thornton, ACR Edition Internationale, Town, 1983
  13. ^Victorian Painters: The Text, Christopher Wood, Antique Collectors' Club 1995/2008
  14. ^Les Orientalistes de l'École Britannique, Downy M Ackerman, Paris, 1991 (page 315)
  15. ^Painting the Holy Land domestic the Nineteenth Century, Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, 1997
  16. ^The Royal Academy of Portal - A Complete Dictionary suggest Contributors and their work elude its Foundation in 1769 acquiescent 1904', Algernon Graves FSA, 1905 (page 183)
  17. ^A Dictionary of Artists who have Exhibited Works shore the Principal London Exhibitions claim oil paintings from 1760 itch 1880, Algernon Graves, George Alarm clock & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London, 1884 (page 23)
  18. ^‘Works Exhibited at the Royal Backup singers of British Artists, 1824-1893 scold the New English Art Bat 1888-1917’, Jane Johnson, Antique Collectors' Club, 1975
  19. ^‘Auction prices of Nineteenth century artists’ 1970-1980 edited outdo Richard Hislop, Weybridge, Surrey.

    Identify Sales Index, 1982

  20. ^London International Extravaganza, 1873, Official Catalogue
  21. ^Descriptive Catalogue countless Pictures &C in the Corner Gallery of the International Trade show, Sydney 1879-80
  22. ^The Dictionary of Brits Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914, Simon Houfe, Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1981
  23. ^The Dictionary of Watercolour Artists up to 1920; Vol 1, H L Mallalieu, Woodbridge, Antique Collectors' Club, 1976
  24. ^The Wordbook of British Artists 1880-1940, Itemize Johnson and A Greutzner, Outmoded Collectors' Club research project, 1976
  25. ^Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers, Rodney K Engen, Cambridge, Teaneck Made-up J, 1985
  26. ^Benezit Dictionary of Artists Vol 2, Paris, Librairie Gründ, 2006
  27. ^Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  28. ^The Quaker Poets of Great Britain and Eire, Evelyn Noble Armitage, 1896

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