Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA, Nazarene Scene – Mid-19th-century watercolour painting
Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA, Nazarene Scene – Mid-19th-century watercolour painting
Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA, Nazarene Scene – Mid-19th-century watercolour painting

Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA Nazarene Scene

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An original mid-19th-century watercolour painting – Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA, Nazarene Scene.

This wonderful watercolour by Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (1820–1900) shows a biblical scene, possibly the capture of Samson by the Philistines.

Frederick Richard Pickersgill was a painter and illustrator who often depicted scenes drawn from history, mythology, literature and the Bible. This drawing shows his admiration for John Flaxman RA (1755–1826), whose engraved outline illustrations of Homer, Aeschylus and Dante emphasised classical forms, bodily movements and drapery. The subject is also indebted to the Nazarenes, the early 19th-century group of German artists who favoured religious or allegorical subjects and who had a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Britain.

Pickersgill painted two oil paintings on the subject of Samson Betrayed, in 1850 and 1862, now in the collections of Manchester City Art Galleries and Benthall Hall, National Trust respectively.

In pen and brown ink with brown and blue wash. On cream wove paper.

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Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (1820–1900)

Frederick Richard Pickersgill RA (1820–1900) was born into a family of artists in London. His father, Richard Pickersgill, was a naval officer but also a keen amateur painter of marine and landscape subjects. His mother, Anne Witherington, was the sister of the artist William Frederick Witherington (1785–1865), while his paternal uncle was the eminent portrait painter Henry William Pickersgill (1782–1875). His cousin, Henry Hall Pickersgill (1812–1861), also became an artist.

He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1837, where he trained in the academic tradition. Influenced by William Etty, he painted genre, historical and literary subjects, and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in the early 1840s. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1847 and became a full Royal Academician in 1857. In addition to painting, he worked as an illustrator and served as Keeper of the Royal Academy from 1873 to 1887. In 1856, John Ruskin called him 'already a Pre-Raphaelite in purpose', and a Pre-Raphaelite attention to detail can be seen in some of Pickersgill's work.

Pickersgill married Mary Hook, the sister of the landscape painter James Clarke Hook. After Mary's death he settled at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, where he died in 1900.

His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the V&A, Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and Manchester Art Gallery.

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Dimensions: Height: 20.9cm (8.23") Width: 28.7cm (11.3")

Presented: Unframed.

Medium: Watercolour

Age: Mid-19th-century

Signed: No.

Inscribed: No.

Dated: --

Condition: Some minor toning, with colour difference seen towards the edges of the sheet from historical window mount. Historical adhesive marks and/or paper remnants to the corners verso, from previous mounting. Please see photos for detail.

Stock number: KD-480