Artist
Francis Danby
British, 1793–1861
Francis Danby was a British British Romanticism artist. 13 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Francis Danby was born in County Wexford.
Francis Danby (16 November 1793 – 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable to those of John Martin. Danby initially developed his imaginative style while he was the central figure in a group of artists who have come to be known as the Bristol School. His period of greatest success was in London in the 1820s.
Works by Francis Danby
The Upas, or Poison-Tree, in the Island of Java
View of a Norwegian Lake Before the Sun has Dissipated the Early Morning Mist
The Deluge
Norwegian Sea
Disappointed Love
The Opening of the Sixth Seal
The Stag Hunt
Liensfiord Lake, Norway
Snowdon : Evening
Coast scene with a ship on the stocks
Stream with bridge and cottages
On the Avon, near Bristol
Figures in a Landscape
Collections represented
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