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Baldry, A. L.: The members of the society
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THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY
of his method—a sincere directness which is especially attractive.
When he joined the Society he was a man of forty-two, and an
artist of such standing that he was not required to submit works
for approval previous to his election. Yet he never rose above the
rank of Associate, though he continued to contribute to the exhibi-
tions until 1839. During the greater part of his life he was much
occupied in teaching, and in 1834 he was appointed drawing-master
at King’s College, when he left Norwich, where he was born and
had spent the greater part of his life, and settled in London. There
he died on July 24, 1842.
The most distinguished of the four Associates who were elected in
1827 was John Frederick Lewis; the others, men of comparative
unimportance, were Samuel Austin, a painter of coast, harbour, and
river scenes, and of rustic figures ; George Pyne, an indifferent
artist, who was the son of W. H. Pyne, the foundation member of
the Society ; and John Byrne, a brother of the lady member of the
same name, and a graceful if scarcely a great landscape painter.
Lewis was an artist of much higher capacities, and though he was
only twenty-one at the time of his election, he had already attracted
attention by the pictures which he had exhibited in other galleries.
These pictures were mostly of animals or sporting subjects, but he
soon changed his direction, and occupied himself for some years
with figure drawings representing in succession life in Scotland,
Italy, Spain, Greece, and Asia Minor : and finally, after a prolonged
residence in Egypt, he turned to those Eastern subjects which
brought him an immense reputation in his later life. In 1859,
a year after he had ceased to be a member of the Society, he was
made an Associate of the Royal Academy ; and he was advanced to
the rank of Academician in 1865.
No one who can be counted as quite on the same level with Lewis
came into the Society during the next few years. The Associates
elected in 1828 were William Evans, known as “Evans of Eton,”
a vigorous and accomplished landscape painter who had been a pupil
of De Wint ; and Penry Williams, a Welshman who lived for
nearly sixty years in Rome, and painted cleverly, if conventionally,
the scenery and country life of Italy. Next year were added Thales
Fielding, a younger brother of Copley Fielding, and a painter of
pastoral subjects and rustic figures ; Alexander Chisholm, who
occupied himself with figure compositions from history and modern
life ; and two lady members, Miss Eliza Sharpe, and Miss Louisa
Sharpe, who were both subject painters, and alternated between
domestic scenes and motives from romantic fiction. In 1831, the
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of his method—a sincere directness which is especially attractive.
When he joined the Society he was a man of forty-two, and an
artist of such standing that he was not required to submit works
for approval previous to his election. Yet he never rose above the
rank of Associate, though he continued to contribute to the exhibi-
tions until 1839. During the greater part of his life he was much
occupied in teaching, and in 1834 he was appointed drawing-master
at King’s College, when he left Norwich, where he was born and
had spent the greater part of his life, and settled in London. There
he died on July 24, 1842.
The most distinguished of the four Associates who were elected in
1827 was John Frederick Lewis; the others, men of comparative
unimportance, were Samuel Austin, a painter of coast, harbour, and
river scenes, and of rustic figures ; George Pyne, an indifferent
artist, who was the son of W. H. Pyne, the foundation member of
the Society ; and John Byrne, a brother of the lady member of the
same name, and a graceful if scarcely a great landscape painter.
Lewis was an artist of much higher capacities, and though he was
only twenty-one at the time of his election, he had already attracted
attention by the pictures which he had exhibited in other galleries.
These pictures were mostly of animals or sporting subjects, but he
soon changed his direction, and occupied himself for some years
with figure drawings representing in succession life in Scotland,
Italy, Spain, Greece, and Asia Minor : and finally, after a prolonged
residence in Egypt, he turned to those Eastern subjects which
brought him an immense reputation in his later life. In 1859,
a year after he had ceased to be a member of the Society, he was
made an Associate of the Royal Academy ; and he was advanced to
the rank of Academician in 1865.
No one who can be counted as quite on the same level with Lewis
came into the Society during the next few years. The Associates
elected in 1828 were William Evans, known as “Evans of Eton,”
a vigorous and accomplished landscape painter who had been a pupil
of De Wint ; and Penry Williams, a Welshman who lived for
nearly sixty years in Rome, and painted cleverly, if conventionally,
the scenery and country life of Italy. Next year were added Thales
Fielding, a younger brother of Copley Fielding, and a painter of
pastoral subjects and rustic figures ; Alexander Chisholm, who
occupied himself with figure compositions from history and modern
life ; and two lady members, Miss Eliza Sharpe, and Miss Louisa
Sharpe, who were both subject painters, and alternated between
domestic scenes and motives from romantic fiction. In 1831, the
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