Caernarvon Castle across the River

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

James Baynes was born at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland. He became a pupil of painter George Romney, before entering the Royal Academy Schools, aged 27. He was a successful drawing master, despite a scandal which exposed him and fellow drawing masters for submitting enhanced or redrawn examples of their own work, for premiums from the Society of Arts, under their pupils' names. Baynes exhibited views of Wales, the Lake District, Norfolk and Kent at the Royal Academy and the Oil and Watercolour Society. He was a member of the Associated Artists in Watercolours from 1808 to 1812. His son was lithographer and watercolour painter Thomas Mann Baynes and his grandson was Frederick Thomas Baynes, watercolour painter of fruit and flower subjects.

Places

Wales, Caernarfon, Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd, River Seiont

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, landscape C19th, river, stone/rock, castle, battlement/crenellation, turret, ship

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

James Baynes (1766 - 1837)

Title

Caernarvon Castle across the River

Date

1817

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 37.70 cm, width: 53.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, March 1968

Inscription

br: I.Baynes. / 1817.

GAC number

7993