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Holme, Charles [Hrsg.]; Royal Watercolour Society [Hrsg.]
The studio: internat. journal of modern art. Special number (1905, Spring): The 'Old' Water-Colour Society, 1804 - 1904 — London, 1905

DOI Artikel:
Baldry, A. L.: The members of the society
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THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY

Francis Stevens, a capable and accomplished landscape painter ;
John Thurston, who had begun as a copper-plate engraver, but had
acquired later a prominent position as an illustrative figure draughts-
man and wood engraver ; Richard Ramsay Reinagle, the son of a
Royal Academician, and an artist of some note among the younger
landscape painters of the time ; and John Smith, the veteran water-
colourist who had played an important part in the earlier develop-
ment of the art, and had done much by his intelligent technical
experiments to improve its processes. Reinagle and Chalon after-
wards became Associates of the Academy, in 1814 and 1827
respectively.

During the succeeding period of six years which ended with the
reconstitution of the Society in December 1812, sixteen Associate
Exhibitors were elected. Among them were several men of the
greatest distinction, to whom by general consent places of special
prominence have been assigned among British masters. Thomas
Heaphy and Augustus Pugin, chosen in March 1807, were both
valuable acquisitions, the former as a figure painter of subjects from
low life, and the latter as a very skilful architectural draughtsman ;
he was for some time an assistant to John Nash, the architect who
designed Regent Street. In the following year were added two
men of some note, John Augustus Atkinson, a painter of rustic and
military subjects, and William Turner, better known as “Turner of
Oxford,” a young artist who had been apprenticed to John Varley
and had acquired something of his master’s largeness of manner and
breadth of style ; and in 1809 came Thomas Uwins, William
Payne, Edmund Dorrell, and Charles Wild, the first of whom was
then laying the foundation of the considerable reputation as a
romantic figure painter which more than twenty years later gained
him admission to the Academy. Payne and Dorrell were well
known by their landscapes, and Wild by his architectural drawings,
which had a more than ordinary degree of pictorial quality.

The year 1810 is notable in the history of the Society because it
saw the addition of the names of De Wint and Copley Fielding to
the list of Associate Exhibitors. In the same year Frederick Nash,
a very able architectural draughtsman; William Westall, a landscape
painter who, though not yet thirty, had had many adventures in
various parts of the world; and William Scott, a student of English
scenery, about whom little is now known, were also elected ; but
they cannot be reckoned to have done more than strengthen the
rank and file of the Association, and one of them, Westall, retired
within two years to become an Associate of the Academy. Copley
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