£580
CALVERT RICHARD JONES (1804-1877) Figures on a Quay of a Mediterranean Harbour, signed and dated 1854, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, 8 ½ x 13 in ; sold together with a rare lithograph by the artist depicting a coal boat off the Welsh Coast (with colliery ramps in the background); and an 1842 etching by the artist depicting shipping off a Mediterranean Coat with lighthouse; three (3)
The Rev. Calvert Richard Jones was the son of a Swansea landowner and studied at Oriel College, Oxford. As a marine painter he was influenced by the work of George Chambers. He was an early Daguerrotypist, and occasionally worked with Henry Fox Talbot, and Hippolyte Buyard, the French inventor of creating direct positive prints on paper.
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