Joseph Crawhall III

Joseph Crawhall (20 August 1861 – 24 May 1913[1]) was an English artist born in Morpeth, Northumberland.

Joseph Crawhall
Born(1861-08-20)20 August 1861
Morpeth, Northumberland
Died24 May 1913(1913-05-24) (aged 51)
London
NationalityBritish
Joseph Crawhall sculpted by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray 1881 (detail)

Life

Crawhall was the fourth child and second son of Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. Crawhall specialised in painting animals and birds. He was born 20 August 1861 at Morpeth, Northumberland. He trained at King's College London before going to Paris to work with Aimé Morot in 1882.[2]

In the 1880s and 1890s, his work became associated with the Glasgow Boys. He was strongly influenced by the Impressionists, and his work, like theirs, was rejected by the art establishment, in his case in the form of the Royal Scottish Academy.

In 1887/88 he visited Tangiers with Pollock Nisbet, Robert Alexander and Robert's son Edwin.[3]

In the 1880s he travelled throughout Morocco and Spain, abandoning oil painting and moving to watercolours with a lighter palette. He died in London in May 1913.[4]

Legacy

Many of Crawhall's works are in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and in the Burrell Collection. His works are few because he is known to have destroyed those he was unhappy with.

A portrait of him by Walter Westley Russell is in the City Art Centre, Edinburgh.[5]

Notes
  1. Who's Who 1914, p. xxi
  2. "Joseph Crawhall 1861–1913". The Tate. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Mr. Joseph Crawhall". The Times. 29 May 1913. p. 11. Retrieved 23 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. 7 paintings by or after Joseph Crawhall at the Art UK site


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