OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY Stormy Seas GGF

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PAINTING REF 110241
 
Excellent Condition panel. Cleaned Ready to hang. 
" frame is in wonderful condition
 
Fine Original Antique 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
 
GOLD GILT FRAME
 
Description
 
( Mid 19th century )
 
Title: Stormy Sea Scene
 
Artist: Attributed to James Edward meadows 
 
Signature: Possibly left bottom dated 1857
 
Provenance: john castagno art 
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Medium : Oil painting on Panel 
 
 
Condition: Excellent 
 
Country: British school 
 
Frame size : 23.5 in x 18 in 
( 60 cm x 46 cm)
 
 
Canvas size : 18" x 12" 
 
 
With an estimate of £4000 - £6000
Description:  James Edward Meadows was born in Mountnessing in Essex. (He is often 
listed as James Edwin but official documents confirm James Edward.) He was the son of marine painter James Meadows, Sr. (1798-1864). The second of five sons, he was not the only artist. His brother Edwin Lewis was also a landscape artist, Alfred John was 
an artist, actor and scene painter, William was a sculptor and painter and 
Arthur Joseph (1843-1907) was an artist who specialized in Venetian and Mediterranean subjects. James Edward is known as a landscape and marine painter.
 
When he was younger he lived in Essex, Stepney, Clapham but following his marriage 
to widowed single-mother Eliza Rackliffe, he moved with his family to Kennington on 
London’s South Bank. Over the next decade the family moved often but generally
stayed in the area that is West London today. They did reside for a period in 1857 in
Chadwell, Ilford where the Essex and London borders meet. Around 1874 the family 
moved to the imposing Gainsborough house in West London where they lived until
James Edward died.
 
Although he lived and worked in London Meadows is known for his rustic landscapes. He was particularly known for working along the Southern coast. He exhibited at the
Royal Academy in London from 1854 to 1872 (26 works), as well as at the British
Institution (17 works) and the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street (55 works). He 
also showed at least seven paintings at the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham, two at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, three at the Manchester City Art Gallery.
 
Like others in his family he also painted at least one theatre set. Theatre diarist 
E. L. Blanchard wrote about the opening of the Charing Cross theatre in June 1869:
“The act- drop, representing the Mall in St James's Park in Charles II's time was 
painted by J.E Meadows."
 
In 1881, the census records indicated that he was a professor of painting. His technical skill garnered him two important commissions. Using postcards, maps, plans, 
photographs, drawings and engravings he painted compositions of the new cities of
Sandhurst and Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, where he had never been. The works were part of the Victorian Pavilion of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition held in 1886 in South Kensington in London. 
 
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