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1815 London, England - 1905 London, England. Known for: Figure, genre, landscape.
Edward Henry Corbould, born in London on December 5, 1815, was a painter, illustrator and sculptor who concentrated primarily on watercolours of literary and historical subjects, which he exhibited... Read full biography
Edward Henry Corbould, born in London on December 5, 1815, was a painter, illustrator and sculptor who concentrated primarily on watercolours of literary and historical subjects, which he exhibited with the New Water-Colour Society from 1837 until 1898. His careful, highly coloured and unmodelled... Read full biography
Edward Henry Corbould, born in London on December 5, 1815, was a painter, illustrator and sculptor who concentrated primarily on watercolours of literary and historical subjects, which he exhibited with the New Water-Colour Society from 1837 until 1898. His careful, highly coloured and unmodelled style, compensated for by direct and simple lighting of figures, was well suited to dramatizing such subjects as the Canterbury Pilgrims Assembled at the Old Tabard Inn (1870), Canterbury Pilgrims... Read full biography
Edward Henry Corbould, born in London on December 5, 1815, was a painter, illustrator and sculptor who concentrated primarily on watercolours of literary and historical subjects, which he exhibited with the New Water-Colour Society from 1837 until 1898. His careful, highly coloured and unmodelled style, compensated for by direct and simple lighting of figures, was well suited to dramatizing such subjects as the Canterbury Pilgrims Assembled at the Old Tabard Inn (1870), Canterbury Pilgrims Enroute to Canterbury (April 1873, private collection), and the prize-winning Plague of London for the competition to decorate the New Palace of Westminster (lithograph, 1849; London, British Museum). Edward Henry Corbould was a son of Henry Corbould and... Read full biography
Edward Henry Corbould, born in London on December 5, 1815, was a painter, illustrator and sculptor who concentrated primarily on watercolours of literary and historical subjects, which he exhibited with the New Water-Colour Society from 1837 until 1898. His careful, highly coloured and unmodelled style, compensated for by direct and simple lighting of figures, was well suited to dramatizing such subjects as the Canterbury Pilgrims Assembled at the Old Tabard Inn (1870), Canterbury Pilgrims Enroute to Canterbury (April 1873, private collection), and the prize-winning Plague of London for the competition to decorate the New Palace of Westminster (lithograph, 1849; London, British Museum). Edward Henry Corbould was a son of Henry Corbould and a pupil of Henry Sass (1788-1844). He studied at the Royal Academy of London where he showed more wide-... Read full biography
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Edward Henry Corbould, born in London on December 5, 1815, was a painter, illustrator and sculptor who concentrated primarily on watercolours of literary and historical subjects, which he exhibited with the New Water-Colour Society from 1837 until 1898. His careful, highly coloured and unmodelled style, compensated for by direct and simple lighting of figures, was well suited to dramatizing such subjects as the Canterbury Pilgrims Assembled at the Old Tabard Inn (1870), Canterbury Pilgrims Enroute to Canterbury (April 1873, private collection), and the prize-winning Plague of London for the competition to decorate the New Palace of Westminster (lithograph, 1849; London, British Museum).
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