Thomas Webster RA, 1884

From: Joseph Parkin Mayall

RA Collection: Art

Webster lived in Cranbrook in Kent from 1857. The photograph shows him seated in the doorway to his house. The artist F.D. Hardy joined Webster at Cranbrook and by the 1860s, the area had become an artists' colony which also included Augustus Mulready, Hardy's brother George, G.B. O'Neill and George Henry Boughton.

Object details

Title

Thomas Webster RA

Photographed by

Joseph Parkin Mayall

Published by

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington (London)

From

F.G. Stephens (ed.), Artists at home photographed by J.P. Mayall, London 1884, pl.[4]

Date

1884

Object type

Photograph

Place of Publication

London

Medium

Photogravure

Dimensions

166 mm x 215 mm

Collection

Royal Academy of Arts

Object number

05/4660

This image is from a book

Artists At Home Photographed By J.P. Mayall, And Reproduced In Facsimile By Photo-Engraving On Copper Plates. Edited, With Biographical Notices And Descriptions, By F.G. Stephens - London:: 1884. [All rights reserved.]

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