James Dafforne

James Dafforne (29 April 1804 – 5 June 1880) was a British journalist, known for his art criticism in The Art Journal.

Life

He was for 35 years a contributor to The Art Journal, joining the staff in 1845, and writing for it till his death. He died on 5 June 1880 at the house of his son-in-law, the Rev. C. E. Casher, Upper Tooting.[1]

The Art Journal, title-page from 1862

Works

Dafforne's works were mostly compilations from the Journal: Pictures of Daniel Maclise, R.A.; also the Pictures of William Mulready, of Leslie and Maclise, of Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., Sir Edwin Landseer, and others. He compiled the Pictorial Table-book. In 1878 he published a book on the Albert Memorial. In 1879 his final book appeared, The Life and Works of Edward Matthew Ward, R.A. He translated Arts of the Middle Ages, by De la Croix.[1]

British Artists: Their Style and Character

A long series of illustrated critical essays by Dafforne appeared in The Art Journal under this title.

Number Date Artist
1 January 1855 John Constable[2]
2 February 1855 Edward Matthew Ward[3]
3 March 1855 Francis Danby[4]
4 April 1855 Frederick Goodall[5]
5 May 1855 William Collins[6]
6 July 1855 John Flaxman[7]
7 August 1855 Frederick Richard Pickersgill
8 September 1855 William Hilton[8]
9 October 1855 Charles Lock Eastlake[9]
10 November 1855 Thomas Webster[10]
11 January 1856 Augustus Wall Callcott[11]
12 February 1856 James Clarke Hook[12]
13 March, April 1856 Charles Robert Leslie[13][14]
14 May 1856 Thomas Creswick[15]
15 June 1856 Benjamin Robert Haydon[16]
16 July 1856 James Baker Pyne[17]
17 August 1856 William Powell Frith[18]
18 September 1856 James Duffield Harding[19]
19 October 1856 J. M. W. Turner[20]
20 November 1856 Frank Stone[21]
21 January 1857 William Edward Frost[22]
22 February 1857 Alexander Johnston[23]
23 April 1857 Alfred Elmore[24]
24 May 1857 Clarkson Stanfield[25]
25 June 1857 John Callcott Horsley[26]
26 July 1857 George Cattermole[27]
27 August 1857 John Gilbert[28]
28 September 1857 John Gibson[29]
29 October 1857 George Lance[30]
30 November 1857 Samuel Prout[31]
31 January 1858 William Linton[32]
32 February 1858 John Frederick Lewis[33]
33 March 1858 George Harvey[34]
34 April 1858 Frederick William Hulme[35]
35 May 1858 Richard Parkes Bonington[36]
36 July 1858 David Roberts[37]
37 August 1858 William Etty[38]
38 September 1858 Henry Le Jeune[39]
39 October 1858 David Wilkie[40]
40 November 1858 Frederick Tayler[41]
41 January 1859 Louis Haghe[42]
42 February 1859 Paul Falconer Poole[43]
43 March 1859 William Frederick Witherington[44]
44 April 1859 John Linnell
45 July 1859 Richard Redgrave[45]
46 September 1859 Henry Jutsum[46]
47 November 1859 Thomas Lawrence[47]
48 February 1860 David Cox[48]
49 April 1860 William Charles Thomas Dobson[49]
50 August 1860 Richard Ansdell[50]
51 October 1860 William Dyce[51]
52 December 1860 Joshua Reynolds[52]
53 January 1861 Jacob Thompson[53]
54 March 1861 George Edwards Hering[54]
55 May 1861 Thomas Sidney Cooper[55]
56 September 1861 Henry Warren[56]
57 November 1861 Henry Fusili[57]
58 January 1862 Alfred Edward Chalon[58]
59 March 1862 Abraham Solomon[59]
60 April 1862 John Cross[60]
61 June 1862 James Ward[61]
62 July 1862 John Absolon[62]
63 February 1863 Joseph Clark
64 March 1863 Abraham Cooper
65 May 1863 William Henry Knight
66 June 1863 Edward Armitage
67 July 1863 Benjamin West
68 January 1864 Gilbert Stuart Newton[63]
69 February 1864 Louis William Desanges[64]
70 March 1864 William Mulready[65]
71 April 1864 Penry Williams[66]
72 May 1864 Charles Baxter[67]
73 July 1864 Eyre Crowe[68]
74 August 1864 William James Grant[69]
75 September 1864 Emily Mary Osborn[70]
76 October 1864 William John Müller[71]
77 December 1864 Henrietta Ward[72]
78 January 1865 Joseph Noel Paton
79 February 1865 Marcus Stone
80 March 1865 John Adam Houston
81 April 1865 Henry Tidey
82 May 1865 William Douglas
83 June 1865 William Cave Thomas
84 November 1865 John P. Burr
85 June 1869 Charles West Cope
86 July 1869 John Pettie
87 August 1869 Edward William Cooke
88 October 1869 David Octavius Hill
89 December 1869 William Gale
90 January 1870 Philip Hermogenes Calderon[73]
91 March 1870 Erskine Nicol[74]
92 June 1870 George Vicat Cole[75]
93 August 1870 William Quiller Orchardson[76]
94 October 1870 Alexander Hohenlohe Burr[77]
95 December 1870 Henry Stacy Marks[78]
96 January 1871 (+February) Thomas Faed
97 February 1871 Benjamin Williams Leader
98 1871 James Archer
99 April 1871 Myles Birket Foster
100 July 1871 Robert Alexander Hillingford
101 August 1871 John Faed
102 September 1871 Robert Thorburn Ross
103 January 1872 Thomas Francis Dicksee
104 April 1872 George Elgar Hicks
105 June 1872 Philip Richard Morris
106 July 1872 Thomas Brooks
107 August 1872 James Thomas Linnell

From 1873 Dafforne continued to write British Artists essays:[79]

Date Artist
1873 George Henry Boughton
1874 Rudolph Lehmann
1875 Laurence Alma-Tadema
Frederick Daniel Hardy
George Adolphus Storey
John George Naish
1876 Frank Holl
John Thomas Peele
Frederick Walker
1877 Edward John Poynter
Richard Beavis
Edmund John Niemann
Laslett John Pott
1878 Briton Riviere
Thomas Jones Barker
1879 Keeley Halswelle
Henry Brittan Willis
Nicholas Chevalier
John Wright Oakes
1880 Francis William Topham
Hubert Herkomer
John Thomas Hamilton Macallum
John Bagnold Burgess

References
  • Hazel Morris (1992). Hand, Head and Heart: Samuel Carter Hall and the Art Journal. Michael Russell. ISBN 085955273X.

Notes
  1. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Dafforne, James" . Dictionary of National Biography. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/8/mode/2up
  3. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/44/mode/2up
  4. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/76/mode/2up
  5. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/108/mode/2up
  6. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/140/mode/2up
  7. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/n261/mode/2up
  8. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/252/mode/2up
  9. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/n349/mode/2up
  10. https://archive.org/stream/exhibitionofarti00wallrich#page/n367/mode/2up
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  14. The art journal London. Virtue. 1856. pp. 105–7.
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  18. The art journal London. Virtue. 1856. pp. 237–40.
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  20. The art journal London. Virtue. 1856. pp. 297–9.
  21. The art journal London. Virtue. 1856. pp. 333–6.
  22. Art Union (1857). The Art Journal. Virtue and Company. pp. 5–7.
  23. Art Union (1857). The Art Journal. Virtue and Company. pp. 57–60.
  24. Art Union (1857). The Art Journal. Virtue and Company. pp. 113–5.
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  54. The art journal London. Virtue. 1861. pp. 73–5.
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