Le Bucentaure
| Reference: | S53078 |
| Author | James Baylis Allen |
| Year: | 1850 ca. |
| Zone: | Venezia |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 345 x 250 mm |
€200.00
| Reference: | S53078 |
| Author | James Baylis Allen |
| Year: | 1850 ca. |
| Zone: | Venezia |
| Printed: | Paris |
| Measures: | 345 x 250 mm |
€200.00
Description
The Bucentaur returning to the Molo on Ascension day: gondolas in the foreground, and beyond the state galley sailing past the Doge's Palace and approaching the piazzetta San Marco.
Engraved by James B. Allend from the famous painting by Canaletto.
Magnificent view, published in London and included in The Art Journal.
James Baylis Allen (1803 - 1876) was a British engraver who trained under his older brother, Josiah Allen, who was also an engraver, as well as the painters John Vincent Barber and Samuel Lines. Allen was especially known for his engravings of landscapes, producing a well-known series on the rivers of France and a number of other series dealing with British, Italian, and Greek landscapes, as well as battle scenes. Many of his engravings appeared in The Art Journal, the premier art journal in 19th century Britain.
Copperplate with fine later hand colouring, good condition.
James Baylis Allen (1803-1876)
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James Baylis Allen (1803–1876) was a British engraver. Allen, together with Edward and William Radclyffe and the Willmores, belonged to a school of landscape-engravers which arose in Birmingham, where there were numerous engravers working on iron and steel manufactures.
Allen was born in Birmingham, 18 April 1803, the son of a button-manufacturer. As a boy he followed his father's business; then about age 15 he was articled to Josiah Allen, an elder brother and general engraver in Birmingham. Three years later he began his artistic training by attending the drawing classes of John Vincent Barber and Samuel Lines.
In 1824 Allen went to London, and found employment in the studio of the Findens, for whose Royal Gallery of British Art he engraved at a later period "Trent in the Tyrol", after Augustus Wall Callcott.
Allen died after a long illness at Camden Town on the 10th January 1876 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. The grave (no.144) no longer has a marker but the remains of the plinth are still visible.
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James Baylis Allen (1803-1876)
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James Baylis Allen (1803–1876) was a British engraver. Allen, together with Edward and William Radclyffe and the Willmores, belonged to a school of landscape-engravers which arose in Birmingham, where there were numerous engravers working on iron and steel manufactures.
Allen was born in Birmingham, 18 April 1803, the son of a button-manufacturer. As a boy he followed his father's business; then about age 15 he was articled to Josiah Allen, an elder brother and general engraver in Birmingham. Three years later he began his artistic training by attending the drawing classes of John Vincent Barber and Samuel Lines.
In 1824 Allen went to London, and found employment in the studio of the Findens, for whose Royal Gallery of British Art he engraved at a later period "Trent in the Tyrol", after Augustus Wall Callcott.
Allen died after a long illness at Camden Town on the 10th January 1876 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. The grave (no.144) no longer has a marker but the remains of the plinth are still visible.
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