British 1830-1896 Lord Frederic Leighton Locations   Related Paintings of Lord Frederic Leighton :. | Mussic Lesson | Idyll | And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were in It | A Girl Feeding Peacocks | The Bath of Psyche |
Related Artists:
Persac Marie Adrien
French-born Louisiana artist , 1823 - 1873
Charles - Theodore Frere
French, 1814 - 1888
James Gay Sawkins
(1806-1878) was an artist who was born in 1806 in Yeovil, Somerset, England. At the age of 14, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland with his family, where he made his living painting miniature portraits on ivory. He lived in Cuba from 1835 to 1845 and visited Hawaii from January, 1850 to June, 1852. After working in Australia, he returned to England in 1855. Sawkins died in 1878 in Turnham Green (near London), England. The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Mission House Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii) and the National Library of Australia (Canberra) are among the public collections holding works by James Gay Sawkins.