See also:GEORGE See also:CHAMBERS (1803-1840)
, See also:English marine painter, See also:born at See also:Whitby, See also:Yorkshire, was the son of a See also:seaman, and for several years he pursued his See also:father's calling
.
While at See also:sea he was in the See also:habit of sketching the different classes of vessels
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His See also:master, observing this, gratified him by cancelling his indentures, and thus set him See also:free to follow his natural See also:bent
.
See also:Chambers then apprenticed himself to an old woman who kept a painter's See also:shop in Whitby, and began by See also:house-See also:painting
.
He also took lessons of a See also:drawing-master, and found a ready See also:sale for small and cheap pictures of See also:shipping
.
Coming afterwards to See also:London, he was employed by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Horner to assist in painting the See also:great See also:panorama of London for the Colosseum (the See also:exhibition See also:building in See also:Regent's See also:Park, demolished towards 186o), and he next became See also:scene-painter at the See also:Pavilion See also:theatre
.
In 1834 he was elected an See also:associate, and in 1836 a full member, of the See also:Water-See also:colour Society
.
His best See also:works represent See also:naval battles
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Two of these—the " See also:Bombardment of See also:Algiers in 1816," and the " See also:Capture of See also:Porto See also:Bello "—are in See also:Greenwich See also:hospital
.
Not See also:long before his See also:death he was introduced to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William IV., and his professional prospects brightened; but his constitution, always frail, gave way, and he died on the 28th of See also:October 184o
.
A See also:Life, by See also:John See also:Watkins, was published in 1841
.
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