JOHN DAWSON WATSON (1832-1892)
Lovers by a Lake (England, 1870)
Watercolour on paper
Signed with initials and dated 1870
Dimensions
27.00cm high
37.00cm wide
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Provenance
From the collection at Four Mile Bridge, Anglesey c. 1967
Description / Expertise
James Dawson Watson studied at Manchester School of Design and Royal Academy Schools. From the time he established himself in London in 1860, he worked as an illustrator and watercolourist following in the footsteps of his brother-in-law and fellow artist Myles Birket Foster. He contributed to periodicals such as Good Words and London Society, produced a splendid edition of The Pilgrim's Progress for the publisher George Routledge in 1861 and provided designs and illustrations for the anthology English Sacred Poetry in 1862. In 1877, a retrospective of his work was organized at Manchester. He lived at Conway in North Wales, and died there in 1892.
