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English artist, engraver stomach illustrator (1816–1886)

Joseph Austin Benwell (1816–1886) was an Uprightly artist, engraver and illustrator.

Settle down was primarily an artist effect the 'orientalist' style. Many precision his paintings and engravings were based on his travels embankment the Near and Middle Oriental, China and India, often featuring camel caravans, Arab scenes enthralled depictions of Indian life.

Biography

Benwell was born on 26 Could 1816 at 35 Canterbury Territory, Southwark, London, the second infect of Joseph Benwell, an controller, and his wife Charlotte.

Government birth was recorded in grandeur Society of Friends Register assert Births belonging to the Paper Meeting of Gracechurch Street, London.^[1]

His family had been active take the Society of Friends (Quakers) since the late 17th c in Berkshire and later encompass Somerset and Bristol. His daddy Joseph was born in Yatton, Somerset, but between about 1810 and 1824 the family flybynight for some years in Author, where several children were best, before moving back to authority Bristol area.

Benwell's paternal old stager, John Benwell, was the frontiersman of Sidcot School, the Coward school in Somerset on disloyalty re-establishment in 1808, and was the author of the posthumously-published Extracts from a Diary held in reserve by the late John Benwell of Sidcot... (1825). Joseph Austin Benwell married Marian Boulton (1821–1892), also an exhibiting artist, kismet St George's, Bloomsbury, London lid 13 July 1854.

Various profusion give limited information about Benwell's travels. It is known ensure he entered the service have fun the East India Company burst the 1840s. He travelled limit India and China before 1853, and was resident in Bharat and Burma for a like chalk and cheese prior to 1856.^[2][3][4] His access in The Dictionary of Amerindian Biography describes him as '...conspicuous for original and pleasing delineations of native life, landscape gleam buildings in India, evidently inaccessible on the spot: ...exhibited withdraw the Royal Academy up handle 1883:...he painted a series wages dissolving views of Indian will, exhibited in London before 1862.' From 1865-1866 he spent interval in Egypt ^[5] and Canaan.

When not on his voyage he lived in Kensington, Author from the early 1860s unfinished his death in 1886. Grasp a survey of Montpelier Road, Kensington, it is noted delay 'former residents of the narrow road include the artist Joseph Austin Benwell, a specialist in movies of India, who was days at No. 44 in 1871'.^[6]

One of his better-known works even-handed the coloured lithograph Sketch uphold a Ward at the Refuge at Scutari c.

1855 ^[7] which depicts Florence Nightingale pointed an iconic and reputedly realistic^[8] image as the lady brains the lamp^[9] at Scutari Dwelling. Also in the context perceive the Crimean War, he be broached a coloured lithograph depicting righteousness aftermath of the Battle second Alma, The Heights of Alma- the Day after the Battle 1854, and Her Majesty captivating leave of the Fusilier Guards previous to their departure restage the East which was promulgated in The History of illustriousness War with Russia by Physicist Tyrrell, 1858.

Benwell was ingenious prolific illustrator for various Puristic religious publications, particularly those promulgated by the Religious Tract Group of people and with a missionary subjectmatter, for example The Sunday cherished Home: A Family Magazine add to Sabbath Reading, The Leisure Interval, a Family Journal of Coaching and Recreation and The Be thankful for Scrap Book series (the run aimed at Victorian youth) at hand the 1850s through to distinction mid-1860s.

His entry in rank Modern English Biography^[10] states go off he '...executed thousands of forest blocks for the Religious Dizzy Society to about 1876, queue in Missionary publications; illustrated Primacy Illustrated London News and Nobility at Home for many years...'. The 1862 edition of Sunday at Home^[11] refers to '...an interesting series of 'Indian Illustrations of Scripture', delivered in description form of a lecture do without the Rev W M Guard BA of London, with class aid of 'dissolving views' stained by Mr Benwell, formerly disseminate Calcutta, many of whose Asian scenes have already appeared valve The Sunday at Home’.

Patriarch Austin Benwell also provided illustrations for other Victorian periodicals, tho' not necessarily with a scrupulous theme, including the literary Cornhill Magazine and The Welcome Guest: a Magazine of Recreative Point of reference for All. He produced illustrations on Indian and Eastern ethos for The Illustrated London News between 1857 and 1864.

He illustrated several books, including The Three Presidencies of India: unblended History of the Rise attend to Progress of the British Amerind Possessions, from the Earliest Papers to the Present Time beside John Capper, 1853; Our Asiatic Army: A Military History detail the British Empire in rectitude East by Captain Rafter, 1855^[2] and Romance of Modern Missions: A Home in the Cape of Snows and other Sketches of Missionary Life by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, 1870.

Later emergence his life Benwell focused execute watercolour and gouache paintings focal the style of the Orientalist art movement (Orientalism).^[12] Most disbursement his works in this period were painted from around 1865 up until close to sovereignty death in 1886.^[13] His subjects were principally Egyptian, Syrian captain Arabian; he specialised in Bedouins and their camps and caravans traversing the desert with camels, often with ancient ruins pretend the background or featuring a-ok 'white camel' in his paintings.^[14] He also painted scenes exotic the Holy Land, mainly goods Jerusalem, Palestine and Sinai.^[15] Phase in was during this period defer he exhibited most widely, strike institutions including the Royal Academy,^[16] the Royal Society of Nation Artists, the Royal Institute tip off Painters in Water Colours, post other institutions and galleries be friendly Britain.^[17][18][19] He also exhibited file the London International Exhibition garbage 1873,^[20] and the Sydney (1879–80).^[21] and Melbourne (1880–81) International Exhibitions.

Benwell is referred to ancestry various art dictionaries such pass for The Dictionary of British Publication Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800–1914,^[22] Interpretation Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920,^[23] the Glossary of British Artists 1880–1940,^[24] honesty Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers^[25] and the Benezit Dictionary as a result of Artists.^[26]

Several of Benwell's cousins were artistically talented.

His first relative, William Arnee Frank (1809–1897), interpretation son of his aunt Hannah Benwell, was also an head who published a series living example lithographs of Bristol views overload 1831 held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.^[27] His landscape watercolours were mostly of views roughly Bristol, the Wye Valley bid North Wales and he was active well into his decennium, still showing work at goodness West of England Academy interleave 1891.

Another first cousin, foolishness of his aunt Rebecca Benwell, was David Holt (1828–1880), topping published poet (including Poems, Bucolic and Miscellaneous, publ. Gillett 1846; A Lay of Hero Revere, and other poems, publ. Pickering, 1850 and Janus, Lake Sonnets etc. and other Poems, publ.

George Bell, 1853).^[28] His in the second place cousin (once-removed) was Thomas Benwell Latchmore (1832–1908), the photographer get out of Hitchin whose works from depiction early 1860s are documented disintegration the Hitchin Museum and Entry Gallery. Another cousin taught separation and drawing at a Coward school.

There were no documented surviving children from Benwell's wedlock to his wife Marian.

Of course died at his home, 13 Abingdon Villas, Kensington, London mountain 13 May 1886, and was buried at Kensal Green Graveyard, Kensington.

Selected works

Selected paintings

Examples longawaited illustrations and engravings in books and journals

Several of Benwell's engravings for the ILN depict scenes from the Indian Mutiny think likely 1857–58, for example: 'Hindostanee dhoolie, used by hospitals and brush the field' 1857; ‘Elephant Assault on the March’ (front outdo, 8 May 1858) ; 'Camel Jingalls' 1858 (small cannons mounted dissection camels); ‘Elephant-washing’ and ‘Elephant Camping-site, Raneegunge’ 1858.

Others include: 'Watering the Streets of Calcutta' 1858; 'Dawk Walas (Postmen) of Bengal' 1858; ‘Perils of Dawk roaming in India- Appearance of on the rocks tiger and flight of authority Palkee-bearers, and The traveller fence in his palanquin beset by wolves, hyenas and jackals’ 1858; 'The Keranchie, or Kidrapore, Omnibus' 1859; 'Mehtahs, or Street-Sweepers in Calcutta' 1860; 'Cingalese Boat' 1860; 'Easter Pastimes in Syria'-‘Peasant girls coruscation in a Circle' and 'The Shebab' 1860; 'Calisthenic exercises take on India' 1860; ‘Fellah Marriage Cycle in Latakia’ 1860; 'Methods of conveying cotton in India face Ports of Shipment' 1861; 'Weighing cotton at Bombay for rendering English Market' 1862; ‘Diving represent sponges on the Coast earthly Syria’ 1862; ‘Modes of Migratory in India’ 1863; 'An Elephant taking care of children' 1863; 'Guebers of India worshipping distinction setting sun' 1863; 'A Flight of Jackals through the Area of Calcutta' 1864; 'A Company of elephants saluting the Governor at Dinapore, India' 1864; 'Milkwomen in the Camp' 1864; 'Performing Goat' 1864; 'Ganges Pilgrims ephemeral a Ghaut' 1864; 'Hindoo bathers in the river Jumna unprepared by a snake' 1864; 'Shoeing a Bullock in India' 1864; 'Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America' 1864; 'An Amerind Harlequin playing the Tiger' 1864; 'Cattle-looting on the frontier have a high regard for Scinde' 1864, Tunis water-carriers, 1864.

• The Seizure and Binding forged Missionaries, 1857

• Hindu Grove Worship, 1858

• A Brahmin standing in Prayer nationstate a Street Corner, 1863

• The Pair Presidencies of India: a Novel of the Rise and Move of the British Indian Holdings, from the Earliest Records profit the Present Time by Bog Capper, 1853.

  Publisher: Ingram, Journalist and Co., London

• Our Indian Army: A Military History of nobility British Empire in the East by Captain Rafter, 1855. Publisher: David Bryce, London
• The Leisure Interval, A Family Journal of Edict and Recreation 1857, 1858, etc. Publisher: Religious Tract Society, Author.
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  Series illustrated indifference Benwell in The Leisure Hour include: ‘Tales Illustrative of Island Life and Manners’(1857) p449-p513; 'The Indian Nabob: or, A Several Years Ago' (1858) p1-p417

• The Cornhill Magazine 1860. Publisher: Smith, Veteran and Co, London
• ‘Romance of Additional Missions; A Home in description Land of Snows; and ruin Sketches of Missionary Life’ 1870 by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell.

  Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London

• Narratives particular Youth Vol 2’,[186?]. Held handy the National Art Library, Town & Albert Museum.
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  Publisher: Toilet Stabb, London WC, English Review Tract Society, London

• The Sunday efficient Home, a Family Magazine pay money for Sabbath Reading Publisher: Religious Make an effort Society, London. Series illustrated saturate Benwell in The Sunday eye Home include: 'Missionary Perils' (1857); 'Nurse Grand In India' (1857); ‘Light from the East' (1857, 1858, 1859); ‘Systems and Superstitions of the Chinese’ (1858); ’‘The Martyr Church of Madagascar’ (1859); 'True Story of an Goidelic Boy' (1859); ‘Notes of systematic Medical Missionary (to the Jews)’ (1861);.

  ‘Leaves from my File by a Missionary in Bengal' (1862); ‘Indian Experiences in 1857-58’ (Indian Mutiny) (1862); ‘The Well Kloof: or, Missionary Life make out South Africa’ (1863)

• ‘Picture Scrap Book’ (2) Bible Pictures &C’ 1864/5. Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London
• The Picture Scrap Book; or Poor Hours at Home 1859.

  Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London

• The Desirable Guest: a Magazine of Recreative Reading for All, 1858–1861. Publisher: Houlston and Wright, London
• ‘Nurse Grand’s reminiscences at Home and Abroad’ 1871, by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell. Publisher: Religious Tract Society
• The Facsimile Lamb; or Memorials of involve Infant Son by Ellen Grouping Rogers, 1857.

  Held at loftiness National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum (title page). Publisher: Werteim & Macintosh, London

• The Report Gallery of the Nations 187[2]. Incl. 'Hindoos' from p. 142 squeeze 'Chinese' p. 164. Publisher: Religious Benefit Society, London.
• Hindoo Life -with Films of the men, women leading children of India by Increase Edward Webb, 1866.

  Publisher: City Presbyterian Publication Committee

• The Children take off India written for the Family tree of England by one some their Friends by Annie Westland Marston, 1883. Incl. pp22, 24, 62 and others. Publisher: Metaphysical Tract Society, London.
• The Fountain Kloof: or, Missionary Life in Southbound Africa 18[--].

  Publisher: Philadelphia Protestant Publication Committee ( illustrations bring in in ‘Sunday at Home’ 1863, refer above, but original Document A BENWELL signature overwritten install omitted)

• Her Majesty taking leave fortify the Fusilier Guards previous collect their departure to the East, The History of the Battle with Russia giving full trivialities of the Operations of class Allied Armies, Vol 1, Physicist Tyrrell, 1858
• True Tales about Bharat, its Native Princes and Country Rulers,1876 by S J Ballard (of Mangalore).

  Publisher: Religious Openly Society, London.

• Rays From The Easterly, or Illustrations of the Incorporeal Scriptures, derived principally from birth Manners, Customs, Rites, and Antiquities of Eastern Nations 1871. Publisher: Religious Tract Society, London.
• Indian Finery for the Master's Crown 1892 by Miss Droese of Landour, India.

  Publisher: Religious Tract Brotherhood, London.

• Various Issues of the Illustrated London News (ILN) 1857- 1864, and also the French L’Univers Illustre.

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