3905 - John Callow, Beach Scene

John Callow, Beach Scene a wide beach with a row of houses, moored boats and people; behind them, a steep, tree-covered cliff; a calm sea at the left-hand edge of the picture, watercolour in muted colours on paper, signed and dated ‘John Callow 1856’ in the bottom left-hand corner, gallery label on the reverse, including the title ‘Sidmouth Seafront, Devon’, minor signs of age, framed under a mat and behind glass, mat cut-out approx. 35 x 63 cm. Artist’s details: English painter (1822, Greenwich - 1878, London), a pupil of his brother William Callow from 1835, resident in London from 1843, exhibited at the New Water Colour Society until 1848 and at the Old Water Colour Society from 1850, a teacher at the Military College in Addiscombe from 1855, 1861-63 at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and from 1875 at Queen’s College, London; Source: Thieme-Becker