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FRANCIS DANBY (1793-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:DANBY (1793-1861)  , See also:English painter, was See also:born in the See also:south of See also:Ireland on the 16th of See also:November 1793 . His See also:father farmed a small See also:property he owned near See also:Wexford, but his See also:death caused the See also:family to remove to See also:Dublin, while See also:Francis was still a schoolboy . He began to practice See also:drawing at the Royal Dublin Society's See also:schools; and under an erratic See also:young artist named O'See also:Connor he began See also:painting landscape . See also:Danby also made acquaintance with See also:George See also:Petrie, and all three See also:left for See also:London together in 1813 . This expedition, undertaken with very in-adequate funds, quickly came to an end, and they had to get See also:home again by walking . At See also:Bristol they made a pause, and Danby, finding he could get trifling sums for See also:water-See also:colour drawings, remained there working diligently and sending to the London exhibitions pictures of importance . There his large pictures in oil quickly attracted See also:attention . " The See also:Upas See also:Tree " (1820) and " The Delivery of the Israelites " (1825) brought him his See also:election as an See also:associate of the Royal See also:Academy . He left Bristol for London, and in 1828 exhibited his " Opening of the See also:Sixth See also:Seal " at the See also:British Institution, receiving from that See also:body a See also:prize of 200 guineas; and this picture was followed by two others from the See also:Apocalypse . He suddenly left London, declaring that he would never live there again, and that the Academy, instead of aiding him, had, somehow or other, used him badly . Some insurmountable domestic difficulty overtook him also, and for eleven or twelve years he lived on the See also:Lake of See also:Geneva, a Bohemian with See also:boat-See also:building fancies, painting only now and then . He returned to See also:England in 1841, when his sons, See also:James and See also:Thomas, both artists, were growing up .

Other pictures by him were " The See also:

Golden See also:Age " and " The Evening See also:Gun," the first begun before he left England, the second painted after his return; he had taken up his See also:abode at See also:Exmouth, where he died on the 9th of See also:February 1861 .

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