1833-1911   Related Paintings of Frederick james shields :. | The Prophetess Anna | Portrait of the 9th Duke of Marlborough with his family | Menter by Repin | Veiled Woman (mk19) | The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus or The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone |
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William Stott of Oldham
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Andrew W. Warren
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John Thomas Serres
1759-1825 English painter, born in London in December 1759. He was the eldest son of Dominic (1722-93), a successful marine painter who was to be one of the founder members of the Royal Academy.Son of Dominic Serres. John Thomas Serres's colourful career began with landscape painting. He later travelled extensively, spending periods in Paris (1789), Rome and Naples (1790-91), before succeeding his father to the office of Marine Painter to George III in 1793. He worked promisingly as a painter (in both oils and watercolour) of sea-pieces in the European tradition, advanced in England by Phillipe Jacques de Loutherbourg. After becoming Marine Draughtsman to the Admiralty in 1800 he took on the less challenging employment of making drawings and elevations of the west coasts of France and Spain. This connection with the Navy was probably related to his appointment as drawing instructor at Chelsea Naval School, London.