b.Portsmouth 1798 d.At Sea 1835   Related Paintings of John Samuel Blunt :. | Virgin and Child agf | Portrait of Charlotte de Monaco | Triptych of Abbot Antonius Tsgrooten | Apollo and Daphne (mk05) | Meeting of St Erasm and St Maurice |
Related Artists:
KEY, Adriaan
Flemish painter (b. ca. 1544, Antwerpen, d. after 1589, Antwerpen).
Antropov Aleksei
Russian, 1716-1795
James Gay Sawkins
(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.