James Aumonier Art

This highly accomplished watercolour by the English landscape painter James Aumonier(1832-1911) shows a view of the River Cnwy near the town of Llanwrst in Wales. The scene shows she...

Oil painting by James Aumonier R. I. 1832-1911 “The Old Swan, Pangbourne Weir”. A fine painter of impressionist landcapes. Prolific exhibitor with over 300 works shown in London, mem...

This original painting by James Almoner, dated 1896, is presented and supplied in a sympathetic frame dating from the 1970s and behind glass. The frame dimensions are 55cm high and 70.5cm wide. The visible watercolour dimensions are 30cm high x 47cm wide (11.81inches high x 18.5inches wide). Previously with the Plympton Gallery, Honiton, Devon. The watercolour is signed lower right, location and dated 1896 lower left. James Aumonier was an acclaimed English landscape painter, born on 9th April 1832 at Camberwell, London. His father, Henry Collingwood Aumonier was a jeweller and his mother was Nancy Frances. The family was of French descent and the name “Aumonier” came from his grandfather’s Huguenot ancestors. James was not the only creative one in the family – his younger brother was an excellent engraver and his nephew Stacy Aumonier also became a landscape painter and decorative designer. James's childhood was spent at Highgate and High Barnet. At the age of fourteen he was placed in a business which he did not much like. His passion was art and he began to attend evening classes, first at the Birkbeck Institution, then known as the Mechanics' Institute, and subsequently at Marlborough House and South Kensington Schools. He worked with such application there that he soon found employment as a designer of patterns for printed calicoes in a London firm. Meanwhile he used all his spare time to practice landscape painting out of doors, working in the early morning hours in the cloisters of Westminster and in Kensington Gardens, and later in Epping Forest. His early influences were Lionel Smith...