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Irish Painter, 1793-1861 was a British painter of the Romantic eraBorn in the south of Ireland, he was one of a set of twins; his father, James Danby, farmed a small property he owned near Wexford, but his death, in 1807, caused the family to move to Dublin, while Francis was still a schoolboy. He began to practice drawing at the Royal Dublin Society's schools; and under an erratic young artist named James Arthur O'Connor he began painting landscapes. Danby also made acquaintance with George Petrie, and all three left for London together in 1824. This expedition, undertaken with very inadequate funds, quickly came to an end, and they had to get home again by walking. At Bristol they made a pause, and Danby, finding he could get trifling sums for water-color drawings, remained there working diligently and sending to the London exhibitions pictures of importance. There his large oil paintings quickly attracted attention. Danby painted "vast illusionist canvases" comparable to those of John Martin of "grand, gloomy and fantastic subjects which chimed exactly with the Byronic taste of the 1820s."The Upas Tree (1820) and The Delivery of the Israelites (1825) brought him his election as an Associate Member of the Royal Academy. He left Bristol for London, and in 1828 exhibited his Opening of the Sixth Seal at the British Institution, receiving from that body a prize of 200 guineas; and this picture was followed by two others on the theme of the Apocalypse. In 1829 Danby's wife deserted him, running off with the painter Paul Falconer Poole Danby left London, declaring that he would never live there again, and that the Academy, instead of aiding him, had, somehow or other, used him badly. For a decade he lived on the Lake of Geneva in Switzerland, becoming a Bohemian with boat-building fancies, painting only now and then. He later moved to Paris for a short period of time. He returned to England in 1840, when his sons, James and Thomas, both artists, were growing up. Danby exhibited his large (15 feet wide) and powerful The Deluge that year; the success of that painting, "the largest and most dramatic of all his Martinesque visions, revitalized his reputation and career. Other pictures by him were The Golden Age (c. 1827, exhibited 1831), Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore (1837), and The Evening Gun (1848). Some of Danby's later paintings, like The Woodnymph's Hymn to the Rising Sun (1845), tended toward a calmer, more restrained, more cheerful manner than those in his earlier style; but he returned to his early mode for The Shipwreck (1859).

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Francis Danby The Deluge oil painting artist


Francis Danby The Deluge oil painting artist

The Deluge
Painting ID::  28222
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c 1840 Oil on canvas 28.4 x 451.6 cm (112 x 178m)

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Francis Danby The Deluge oil painting artist


Francis Danby The Deluge oil painting artist

The Deluge
Painting ID::  66301
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The Deluge, oil painting in the Tate Gallery, London 1837-1839

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Francis Danby See bei Sonnenuntergang oil painting artist


Francis Danby See bei Sonnenuntergang oil painting artist

See bei Sonnenuntergang
Painting ID::  74541
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c. 1835 Oil on canvas : 46 X 61 cm cjr

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Francis Danby See bei Sonnenuntergang oil painting artist


Francis Danby See bei Sonnenuntergang oil painting artist

See bei Sonnenuntergang
Painting ID::  76091
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Deutsch: um 1835 English: c. 1835 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions Deutsch: 46 ?? 61 cm cyf

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Francis Danby Liensfiord [possibly Lifjord, a part of Sognefjord oil painting artist


Francis Danby Liensfiord [possibly Lifjord, a part of Sognefjord oil painting artist

Liensfiord [possibly Lifjord, a part of Sognefjord
Painting ID::  91240
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1841(1841) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 82,5 x 117 cm cjr

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