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Artists Who Painted Birmingham Landscapes

Pedrocut said:
Aston Park, Cattle and Figures Under Trees, 1804.

Pen and ink wash over pencil on paper. Artist: Charles Barber

Charles Vincent Barber (ca. 1784 – 1854) was an English landscape painter and art teacher.

He was born in Birmingham and baptised on 28 January 1784, the first son of Joseph Barber, the town's first drawing master. He studied at his father's art school where his fellow students included David Cox, who was to become a lifelong friend and with whom he was to regularly travel to North Wales to paint in later life

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A very atmospheric work!
 
Birmingham and the Old Asylum from the Lozells, 1826.
By: Henry Harris Lines.

“Henry Harris Lines was a landscape artist and archaeologist, and the eldest son of Birmingham artist and drawing master Samuel Lines. There are a number of Henry's works stored in the permanent collections of various provincial museums and art galleries including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery. As well as at the Birmingham Society of Arts, Henry also exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists.” Wikipedia.

But from where was this picture sketched ?
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Joseph Vincent Barber (1788–1838), known as Vincent Barber Was a Birmingham born artist who painted mainly landscapes including the watercolour View of Aston Hall from the Staffordshire Pool (ca. 1808–1838), see this thread
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Post in thread 'Staffordshire Pool and surrouds'

Just to add, the artist of the painting was by BirmIngham artist Joseph Vincent, born in Birmingham, the son of artist and drawing master Joseph Barber
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From Wikipedia:

He was the son of the artist and drawing master Joseph Barber, he took over the running of his father's drawing academy in Great Charles Street on the elder Barber's death in 1811. Barber's students at the academy included Thomas Creswick, James Tibbits Willmore, Thomas Baker and Peter Hollins.

In 1809 he formed a separate academy of life drawing, with his brother Charles Barber and his father's former pupil Samuel Lines, eventually becoming the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and Birmingham School of Art.

Barber painted mainly landscapes, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1812 and 1830.<a He retired in 1837 and travelled to Italy, dying of malaria in Rome.
 
Braddon (William Henry Crees) the mystery artist. The Balsall Heath home and Sherlock Street home no longer exist. But the Moseley road one does, it is shop premises. Maybe Crees had the shop as a studio?

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Source: British Newspaper Archive
 
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