(1806-1878) was an artist who was born in 1806 in Yeovil, Somerset, England. At the age of 14, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland with his family, where he made his living painting miniature portraits on ivory. He lived in Cuba from 1835 to 1845 and visited Hawaii from January, 1850 to June, 1852. After working in Australia, he returned to England in 1855. Sawkins died in 1878 in Turnham Green (near London), England. The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Mission House Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii) and the National Library of Australia (Canberra) are among the public collections holding works by James Gay Sawkins.   Related Paintings of James Gay Sawkins :. | La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue des Lauves | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 244 | Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice | Feast Day at the Hospice Trivulzio in Milan | Die Kathedrale von Salisbury vom Garten des Bischofs aus gesehen |
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Edwin Douglas
1848-1914
Albert Blaetter
(1878 -1935 ) - Painter
Gerard ter Borch the Younger
painted Mother Combing the Hair of Her Child. in 1652