Edward Thomas Daniell

Edward Thomas Daniell
Edward Thomas Daniell
Born (1804-06-06)6 June 1804
London
Died 24 September 1842(1842-09-24) (aged 38)
Antalya, Turkey
Nationality English
Education John Crome
Known for Landscape painting
Movement Norwich School of painters

Edward Thomas Daniell (6 June 1804 – 24 September 1842) was an English landscape painter and etcher. He grew up in Norfolk and was ordained as a priest. He is best known for his drawings made on an expedition to Lycia, in the course of which he died.

Life

The Rhine at Constance (Konstanz-am-Rhein) (circa 1830), Yale Center for British Art

Daniell was born on 6 June 1804 in Fitzroy Square, London. He was the son of Sir Thomas Daniell and his second wife Anne Drosier. Sir Thomas died in Norfolk in 1806, leaving his widow to bring up her young family alone.[1][2]. Daniell was educated at the Norwich Grammar School, where he was taught drawing by John Crome. Crome's influence is apparent in Daniell's early etchings, but he soon came under the influence of J.M.W. Turner.[3] In December 1823, Daniell went up to Balliol College, Oxford to read classics. While at Oxford he became a friend of John Linnell, from whom he received some lessons in oil painting. He graduated from Oxford in November 1828. The next year he travelled on the continent and etched and painted, returning to England in late 1830.[4] In the summer of 1831 he went touring in Scotland, obtaining valuable subject material whilst travelling with companions from his days at Oxford.[1]

In 1832 he was ordained at Norwich Cathedral by the elderly Bishop of Norwich, Henry Bathurst, and for a year and a half was curate at the village of Banham in Norfolk.[4][1] In the same year he exhibited a number of his own pictures of scenes in Italy, Switzerland and France with the Norwich Society of Artists, exhibits which were commented upon by the Norwich Mercury that year. This was the sole instance of an exhibition of Daniell's works with the Society, which was disbanded the following year.[1] In 1834 he was appointed to the curacy of St. Mark's, North Audley Street in London.[5][6] His house in Park Lane became a resort of painters that included Linnell, Turner, David Roberts, William Dyce, Thomas Creswick, William Collins, Abraham Cooper, John Callcott Horsley and William Clarkson Stanfield. According to Linnell's biographer, A.T. Story, Daniell's home was "a treasure-house of art, and comprised works by some of the best painters of the day".[5] His oil paintings, which generally depicted subjects encountered whilst on his travels around Europe, featured in annual exhibitions during the period he was living in London. He exhibited at both the Royal Academy and the British Institution[1]

Etchings

Binyon thought Daniell's etchings were – from a historical point of view – the most remarkable of his works, anticipating, with their freedom of line, the etching revival personified later in the century by Seymour Haden and Whistler.[4] Whilst still at university, the young artist learnt much from Joseph Stannard,[1] but later employed a looser style, moving away from the example of his friend and teacher, towards that of Andrew Geddes and other Scottish etchers, whose work he had probably seen while in Scotland in the summer of 1831. His later works excel in the use of drypoint. It appears that all his etchings were printed by Henry Ninham, whose home and printing workshop in Norwich was situated close to Daniell's home in the city.[1]

Tour of the Holy Land

At a date some time after June 1840,[1] and inspired by the example of David Roberts, who had made a long trip to Egypt and the Holy Land to gather subject material, Daniells left England to tour the Near East. He was in Athens by the end of the year, and had crossed to Egypt early in 1841, travelling up the Nile to Nubia, then from Egypt to Palestine. He then moved on to Syria, reaching Beirut in October 1841.[4]

In Smyrna he fell in with an English party on board H.M.S. Beacon, which had been sent by British Government to Lycia to bring home antiquities discovered by Sir Charles Fellows at Xanthos, for the British Museum. Daniell joined the expedition and spent the winter at Xanthos. When Fellows left, he remained behind to make a more thorough survey of the country, in company with Spratt, a lieutenant in the Navy, and Edward Forbes, a naturalist.[4] Daniell produced a series of sixty-four drawings, now in the British Museum, recording their journey. Laurence Binyon said of them "What strikes one most at first is the astonishing air of space and magnitude conveyed, the fluid wash of sunlight in these towering gorges and open valleys".[4]

While returning to Lycia from Rhodes, where he had left Forbes and Spratt, Daniell caught a fever. He recovered, but undertook a solitary expedition to Pamphylia and Pisidia during the hottest part of the year. He fell ill again at Adalia,[4] and died there at the residence of the British consul,[7] on 24 September 1842, aged 38.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Moore, The Norwich School of Artists, pp. 97-8.
  2. ↑ "American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868, p. 75". Google Books. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Cundall, H. M. (1920). Holme, Geoffrey C., ed. The Norwich School. London, Paris, New York: The Studio Ltd. p. 30. ND471.N6 H6.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Binyon, Laurence (1899). "Edward Thomas Daniell, Painter and Etcher". The Dome. IV (12). .
  5. 1 2 Story, Alfred Thomas (1892). The Life of John Linnell. Bentley and Son, London.
  6. ↑ Story mistakenly refers to the church as St Martin's.
  7. ↑ "Obituary: Clergy Deceased". The Gentleman's Magazine: 102. December 1843. Sept. 24. At the residence of the British Consul at Adalia, in Syria, of brain fever, in the prime of life, the Rev. Edward Thomas Daniell, M.A. of Balliol college, Oxford, late Reader at St. Mark's chapel, Grosvenor-square.

Bibliography

  • Beecheno, Frederick R. (1889). E.T. Daniell: a memoir. Privately printed (Limited edition of 50 copies).
  • Edward Forbes and Lieutenant Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis, in company with the Late E.T. Daniell (1847), volume 1 and volume 2.
  • Moore, Andrew W. (1985). The Norwich School of Artists. Norwich: HMSO/Norwich Museums Service. ISBN 0 11 701587 3.
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