Mother and Daughter watercolour by Thomas Wageman

"Mother and Daughter" watercolour by Thomas Wageman dated 1848.There is a strong feeling of the Colonies about this work; the cockatoo, the Burmese laquer etc. It is not know if Wageman ever travelled in the colonies but the setting is quite un English and traditional for the genre.

Thomas Charles Wageman (1787-1863) was a portrait and landscape painter and illustrator who exhibited from 1816 until 1857, mostly at the Royal Academy. He was a founder member of the New Watercolour Society in 1831 and he was appointed Portrait Painter to the King of Holland. Many of his sitters were eminent actors. 19

His work is represented in the collections of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Biblio: Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists; Thieme Becker XXXV, 1942; Bénézit : Dictionnaire des Peintres.  

Dimensions: 565 x 455