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Reverend James Bourne (1773 – 1854)
Landscape
with two figures and a cottage with ruined castle and distant mountains
Monochrome
watercolour
Picture
size 11 3/8” x 16 1/8” (287mm x 410mm)
Overall
framed size 18 ½” x 23 ¼” (470mm x
590mm) IMAGE
The
Reverend James Bourne was born at Dalby in
Lincolnshire in 1773. He was a Drawing Master who was educated in Louth and who
came to London in 1789, where for eighteen months he tried to find employment
before moving to Manchester. On his return to London in about 1796 he was
taken on by Lord Spencer and the Duchess of Sutherland through whom he may have
met Girtin and Turner, and also Beaumont with whom he
toured Wales in 1800. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in that
year, and he made regular summer tours, visiting the Lakes in 1789, the West
Country in 1799, Lincolnshire in the autumn of 1803, Yorkshire, Surrey and Kent. In 1838 he gave up his profession for
the Church, and he left London in 1846. His work is usually in
monochrome. His habit of using black hatching to indicate the foliage and
the details of his foregrounds has a distant kinship with that of Glover.
Examples of Bourne's work may be found in the British
Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the City Art Gallery Birmingham, Dudley
Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Hertford County Record Office, Hertford
Museum, Hove Library, Leeds City Art Gallery, City Art Gallery Manchester,
National Museum Wales, Newport Art Gallery, Glynn-Vivian Art Gallery Swansea and York Art Gallery.
