Artist
William Collins
British, 1788–1847
William Collins was a British British Romanticism artist. 25 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. William Collins was born in London.
William Collins (8 September 1788, London – 17 February 1847, London) was an English landscape and genre painter. His sentimental paintings of poor people enjoying nature became a posthumous high fashion, notably in the 1870s when his market price rose higher than Constable (Cromer Sands, £3780, 1872) and stayed so until 1894. Turner, his model, far exceeded him in value (The Grand Canal, Venice, sold to Vanderbilt in 1885 for £20,000).
Works by William Collins
A Country Kitchen
Sorrento: Bay of Naples
The Villa d'Este, Tivoli
The Caves of Ulysses at Sorrento, Naples
Seaford, Sussex
A Heath in Sussex
Landscape with Children at Play
Fisherwomen on the Coast near Boulogne
Eel Pots
Hall Sands, Devonshire
Landscape: The Gypsy Camp
The Stray Kitten
Kentish Peasant Girls
Juvenile Shrimpers, Deal
The River Side
Eu, Normandy
Street in Naples
Littlehampton : Seashore Study with Children Playing on the Sands
Studies of English Scenery
Coast Scene
Coast View near Sorrento, Bay of Naples
Salcombe, Devonshire
Sketch for 'Happy as a King'
A cart with boats on the shore, near cliffs
25 works in the catalog · 24 shown
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