Samuel Owen, (1769 - 8 December 1857)
Unloading the catch
Watercolour
14 x 19cm; 5½ x 7½in
Private collection
Private collection
Samuel Owen (1769 - 8 December 1857)
was an English marine painter and
illustrator. Nothing is recorded of him before 1791, when he exhibited "A
Sea View" at the Royal Academy. This was followed in 1797, after the
victory of Cape St. Vincent, by "A View of the British and Spanish
Fleets", and, in 1799, by three drawings. These, with three other drawings
exhibited in 1802 and 1807, complete the number of his exhibits at the Royal
Academy.
In 1808 he joined the "Associated Artists in
Water-Colours", and sent eleven drawings of shipping and marine subjects
to the first exhibition of that short-lived body. He also exhibited twelve
works in 1809, and six in 1810, but after that date resigned his membership.
His works were carefully drawn and freshly coloured, with great attention to
the details of shipping.
Owen died at Sunbury in Surrey, on the 8th December
1867, in his 89th year, but had long before ceased to practise his art. More on Samuel Owen
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