James Walker
James Walker (c. 1760) was a British mezzotint engraver.
James Walker
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- Born
- 1748.
- Died
- James Walker's death is not recorded and the exact fate is unknown.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Kingdom of Great Britain.
- Occupation
- printmaker, engraver and artist.
- Teachers
- Valentine Green.
- Languages
- English.
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Early life
Early life
Training under Valentine Green is recorded. John Augustus Atkinson is recorded as having studied under James Walker. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is engraving. Work by James Walker is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, The Frick Collection, Yale Center for British Art, National Library of Wales and Print Collection.
The son of a captain in the merchant navy, Walker became a pupil of Valentine Green. Although an eminent mezzotint engraver in England, Walker emigrated to Russia in 1784, remaining there for nearly twenty years.
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James Walker (1748 – 1808) was an artist, engraver and copperplate engraver. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia and Emperor Alexander I, engraving by James Walker after Johann-Baptist Lampi the Elder He was invited to St. Petersburg by Empress Catherine II, who appointed him Engraver to Her Imperial Majesty, on a salary of 1,000 roubles a year. His role was to execute mezzotints after the Old Master paintings in the Imperial Collection, which were published in two folders entitled A Collection of Prints, from the Most Celebrated Pictures in the Gallery of her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second. Walker also engraved portraits of the Imperial family and the Russian Aristocracy. Walker's appointment as court engraver was renewed by the Emperor Alexander I, and he was a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg. He returned to England with a pension in 1802. He visited St. Petersburg again in 1805.
Works
Works
Walker's earliest published plate bears the date 2 July 1780. During the following three years he published: portraits, after George Romney and others; domestic scenes, The Spell, and The Village Doctress, after James Northcote; a scene from Cymbeline, after Edward Penny. Walker lost 24 of his plates in a shipwreck off Great Yarmouth, when he returned to England in 1802. A list of those was given in the catalogue of a sale of his remaining plates and impressions from the lost plates, at Sotheby's, on 29 November 1822. A portrait of Alexander I was published after his return, on 1 May 1803. A number of Walker's mezzotints were published for the first time in 1819, and one, The Triumph of Cupid, after Parmigianino, in 1822.
This rectangular tobacco box with chamfered corners is faced with sheets of malachite. Set in the lid is a panel of "verre églomisé," a decorative technique in which a design is worked onto the reverse side of a sheet of glass that has been gilded. silvered, or painted-gold and black being the most common color combinations. In Russia, it was a popular art form not only for small items, but also f
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1748
James Walker born.
1808
James Walker died.
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- 1.Anthony Cross, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, 318.
- 2.Lebensdaten in der Union List of Artist Names, abgerufen am 21. Mai 2022 unter getty.edu.
- 3.Anthony Cross, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, 319.
- 4.Anthony Cross, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, 318f.
- 5.Anthony Cross, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, 320.
- 6.Anthony Cross, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, 321.
- 7.Anthony Cross, By the Banks of the Neva: Chapters from the Lives and Careers of the British in Eighteenth Century Russia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, 321f.
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Formation and teaching. He trained under Valentine Green. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style. Recorded as printmaker, engraver and artist.
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Work by James Walker is
Nationalmuseum, The Frick Collection, Yale Center for British Art and National Library of Wales
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