About James Webb

  • Biography

    James R Webb, (1825-1895) was a British painter specialising in marine views and landscapes. He lived all his life in Chelsea, London. He exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of London* and the British Institute between 1850 and 1888, and many of his works still hang in London in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate Gallery*.

    Other works are found in a large number of provincial galleries. Webb was a pupil of Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.

    His father Archibald Webb and his brother Byron Webb were also noted painters.
    Works
    • 1857: The Lock
    1859: A Barge in a Norfolk Landscape
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