Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1653-1736 Related Paintings of WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van :. | The Castel Sant'Angelo from the South | The St Peter's in Rome | Rome, the Tiber near the Porto di Ripa Grande | View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome | The Island of San Michele, Looking toward Murano | Related Artists: 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 Memmo di Filippuccio 1433 - 1494 Wilhem Drost painted Portrait of a man in 1653 or 1655