Artist
John E. Bowman
John E. Bowman is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John E. Bowman painted sweeping views of Mediterranean fortresses in watercolour, working as the British Empire’s eyes on the Levant in the 1840s. Two sheets in the collection, St. Jean d’Acre from the Sea (1848) and The Citadel of Sidon (1848), record the sun-struck stone of Acre and Sidon exactly as seen from the deck of a survey ship. Tap St. Jean d’Acre from the Sea to step inside the pale ramparts and feel the salt spray still hanging in the paper’s fibres.
Works by John E. Bowman
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