
Thomas Seaman
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Provenance
J. Naysmyth Esq. Penshurst.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 November 1992, lot 125.
Private collection, UK.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1861, no. 456.
London, International Exhibition, 1862, no. 777 (lent by J. Naysmyth Esq. Penshurst).
Andrew MacCallum was born in Nottingham and studied at the Government School of Art. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1850, travelling in Europe over a period of three years from 1854. On his return he concentrated on landscape painting in which he excelled. The present lot is an exquisite example of his work and shows clearly how the artist was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, in particular the work of William Holman Hunt and Ford Madox Brown. The meticulous attention to detail on such a scale is extraordinary and would not have been lost on the viewing public who saw it hanging in the West Room at The Royal Academy in 1861.
Between 1870 and 1875 MacCallum travelled several times to Egypt where he painted scenes of rural life and during that time he accompanied Amelia Edwards on her dahabiya (manned houseboat) as she worked on her best selling book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile which was published in 1877; one of several trips to Egypt that he took in the 1870s. He was also commissioned by Queen Victoria to paint five views near Balmoral in 1875.
MacCallum died on 22 January 1902 at 5 The Studios, Holland Park Road, Kensington.