James Waylen
James Waylen (19 April 1810–1894) was a 19th-century English painter. He was already successful as an artist in his 20s, when he exhibited two portraits and a work entitled Marmion Borne Down by the Scottish Spearmen at Flodden at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1834 to 1838.[3]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in southern England on 19 April 1810 of Robert and Sarah Waylen.[4] On 2 June 1829 Waylen came to the office of the famous civil engineer Thomas Telford, designing London's St Katharine Docks.[5][6]
Working in Telford's drawing office, he made long-life friends with another civil engineer, the Scottish George Turnbull, who in 1838 asked Waylen to travel from London to Huntingtower near Perth in Scotland to paint a portrait in oils of Turnbull's father William Turnbull, who wrote to his son:
Waylen seems just the same unassuming, kindhearted creature as when last here: his heart appears to be in his profession, and he has made more progress in it than could have been expected in the time; we find him very amusing in the accounts of his travels. He has been here more than a week and has made a success in making a likeness of me: everyone who sees it says the likeness is striking.[7]
Waylen had a long artistic career, in that he was commissioned in about 1868 by Turnbull to paint Turnbull's three children together. Later in 1884 Waylen, as a present to Turnbull, painted Turnbull's great uncle Colonel George Turnbull.
References
[edit]- ^ Page 387 of the George Turnbull (civil engineer) autobiography (DVD version) British Library, London. A gift to him by the artist.
- ^ Ann Arbor's William L. Clements Library Occasional Bulletins January 2018 page 19.
- ^ The Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood, 2nd edition page 503, 978-0-902028-72-3
- ^ 6 June 1841 census
- ^ Page 10 of George Turnbull, C.E. 437-page memoirs published privately 1893: copy in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; and a scanned copy held in the British Library, London on compact disk since 2007
- ^ http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James Waylen
- ^ Page 34 of George Turnbull, C.E. 437-page memoirs published privately 1893: copy in the National Library, Edinburgh; and a scanned copy held in the British Library, London on compact disk since 2007
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