John Cantiloe and William Joy

John Cantiloe Joy
Born 1806
Great Yarmouth
Died 1866
London
Nationality English
Known for Marine painting
Movement Norwich School of painters
William Joy
Born 4 November 1803
Great Yarmouth
Died 1867
Chichester
Nationality English
Known for Marine painting
Movement Norwich School of painters

The brothers John Cantiloe Joy (1806 – 1866) and William Joy (4 November 1803 - 1867) were English marine painters and members of the Norwich School of painters, who often worked together as artists.

Lives

William Joy - A Lugger Driving Ashore in a Gale (Yale Center for British Art
Louis Philippe, King of the French, Arriving at Portsmouth (1844) William Joy and John Cantiloe Joy

William Joy was born on 4 November 1803, the son of John Joy and Elizabeth Cantiloe, and was baptised four days later at St. Nicholas' Parish Church.[1] His younger brother John Cantiloe Joy was baptised in Great Yarmouth on 8 June 1805.[2] An older sister, Caroline, was born in Yarmouth a year before William.[3]

The two brothers remained close together all their lives. As students they were trained to become skilled in depicting sailing ships accurately. They exhibited regularly with the Norwich Society from 1814 onwards. They often worked jointly on a commissioned painting, but also produced individual works.[4]

In around 1832 they relocated to Portsmouth to record drawings of fishing boats for the British Government. They also worked in London and Chichester, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1824 and 1832, the British Institute and the Society of British Artists. Because of their close collaboration the brothers cannot usually be distinguished from each other. Many of their works are located in the Castle Museum in Norwich, but also in the National Maritime Museum and in art galleries and museums in Portsmouth, Great Yarmouth, Poole, and Grimsby.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (William's mother's name is given in the birth record as "Bettey Cantelor").
  2. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFCC-FPT (The name is written John Canteloo Joy in the record).
  3. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch
  4. ↑ Walpole, Art and Artists of the Norwich School, p.146-147.
  5. ↑ Richard Gardner Antiques website
  6. ↑ Wright, British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections. p. 473.

Bibliography

  • Walpole, Josephine (1997). Art and Artists of the Norwich School. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-261-5.
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