LARGE, James
James Large was born at Chatham, Kent on 23 February 1809 and baptised at Ebenezer Meeting House, Chatham on 17 August 1809, son of William Large and his wife Fanny. Early in 1835, he took the stationery & printing business of Joshua Brackett (1799-1876) at Sudbury, Suffolk. In 1839, described as bookseller & stationer (and printer), at Market Hill, Sudbury and in 1844 a bookseller & portrait painter. Large was the printer of the Sudbury Borough accounts 1839-1841, after which date the printing was done by George Williams Fulcher (1795-1855). James married at Sudbury All Saints Church on 19 July 1841, Maria Murell (1808-19 March 1884). In the investigation into bribery in the 1843 Sudbury elections he describes himself as a printer about which time he sold his business to James Wright (1810-1885). By 1851 he had returned to Kent, living at 46 Harmer Street, Milton next Gravesend, described as portrait painter & printer, with his 43-year-old wife Maria, who was born at Sudbury. In 1861, a portrait painter, living at 8 Dorset Gardens, Brighton and in 1871 a portrait & landscape painter at 7 Cavendish Place, Hastings, Sussex and was still at Hastings in 1881. James Large died at Hastings, Sussex on 10 April 1881, aged 72. (Copsey–Suffolk Book Trades. 2011)
Works by This Artist
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Brighton BeachWatercolour with body colour |