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Pollard, James
The Last Mail Leaving Newcastle, July 5, 1847
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ID: 19909
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Pollard, James
English, 1792-1867
Painter and etcher, son of Robert Pollard. His early career was spent in the shadow of his father, for whom he worked as an etcher of miscellaneous sporting subjects before establishing himself c. 1820 as a sporting painter in his own right. A typical example is Doncaster Races: Horses Starting for the St Leger (1831; Paul Mellon priv. col.). Following a commission from the King's Printseller, Edward Orme, for an inn signboard showing a coach and horses, Pollard began to specialize in coaching scenes. Related Paintings of Pollard, James :. | A Street Scene with Two Omnibuses | A Meet Outside The Swan inn | Springing Them up to meet the Train and Just in time for the Coach to Hull | Hatchetts- The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly | The Last Mail Leaving Newcastle, July 5, 1847 | Related Artists: Johann Christian ReinhartGerman , 1761-1847
He revealed an interest in art while still at school and, though he began to study theology in Leipzig in 1778, he soon transferred to the private art academy of Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717-99). Here he made copies of the work of his teacher and drew after plaster casts of antique statues. The Liber Veritatis, a collection of 200 drawings by Claude Lorrain, was also used as a model and had an important influence on him. In 1783 he went to Dresden where he was especially attracted to the Dutch landscape paintings in the Gem?ldegalerie. In 1785 Reinhart returned to Leipzig where he made the acquaintance of the German poet Friedrich Schiller, with whom he had a lifelong friendship, and to whom he later dedicated an etching of a heroic landscape (1800). From 1786 to 1789, while resident at the court of the Duke of Sachsen-Meiningen, he explored the Thuringian countryside on foot, making sketches as he went. Antonio del Pollaiuolob.
1431/32, Firenze, d. 1498, Roma Wilhelm Gentz, 1822 - 1890
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