Italian-born Argentine Photographer, ca.1810-1890  Related Paintings of CHURRIGUERA, Jose Benito :. | Third Quarter of the 14 th c | The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail) | Still life | The Spint of Culmin Appears to his Mother | Italianate Landscape |
Related Artists:
Thomas Chambers
1808-1886 Thomas Chambers Galleries
B. Le Coffre

Octavius Oakley
1800-1867 was a Victorian watercolourist. Oakley initially worked for a cloth manufacturer near Leeds in Yorkshire. He developed into a specialist of portraits in watercolour and enjoyed the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. From living in Derby where he depicted rustic scenes, he moved to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire in 1836, but returned to London in the 1840s and worked there until his death, producing paintings of street scenes and gypsies and their lifestyle. His emphasis on gypsy paintings which he exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society earned him the name 'Gypsy Oakley'. Oakley met Thomas Baker in Leamington Spa where Baker was living and working and in 1841