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Thomas Baines Action between HMS oil painting


Action between HMS
Painting ID::  96571
Artist: Thomas Baines
Painting: Action between HMS
Introduction: oil on canvas Dimensions 58.5 X 76.2 cm cyf
   
   
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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     (27 November 1820 ?C 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the "Olivia" (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army. In 1855 Baines joined Augustus Gregory??s 1855?C1857 Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition across northern Australia as official artist and storekeeper. The expedition??s purpose was to explore the Victoria River district in the north-west and to evaluate the entire northern area of Australia in terms of its suitability for colonial settlement. . Related Artists to Thomas Baines : | Elisabeth Warling | Thomas Pakenham | llya Yefimovich Repin | Henri Toulouse-Lautrec | FRANCIABIGIO |

 

 

 

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