AUMONIER, James

1832 - 1911

James Aumonier was born at Camberwell, Surrey on 9 April 1832, son of Henry Collingwood Aumonier (1799-1848), a jeweller, and his wife, Nancy Frances (1808-23 May 1856), née Stacy, who married at St Dunstan's in the West, London on 6 June 1827. James studied at evening classes at the Birkbeck Institution followed by Marlborough House and then at South Kensington School of Art. In 1851, James was a 19-year-old paper stainer, living at Clifton Cottage, Willesden, Hendon, Middlesex, the home of his uncle William Stacy, a jeweller, and where his widowed mother and siblings were also living. Around 1862 he turned to painting and became an associate of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours from 1876 and was one of the original members of the Institute of Oil Painters. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy 1870-1911 and was a regular visitor to Southwold, Suffolk painting the local scenery including 'Easton Broads' and 'South Cove Common, Suffolk'. Aumonier married at St George's, Bloomsbury on 8 August 1863, Amelia Wright (1839-23 December 1899), daughter of James Wright, a gold beater, and they had two sons and three daughters, one of whom died at birth in 1878. In 1891, they were living at Oxford Villas, Southdown Road, New Shoreham, Steyning, Sussex. James Aumonier was of 142 Adelaide Road, South Hampstead when he died at 97 South Hill Park, Hampstead, London on 4 October 1911.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 1 Shaftesbury Terrace, Hornsey Rise, London
1870 407 Where the Water-lilies Grow
from 10a Clarence Road, Kentish Town
1871 310 Okehampton Castle, Dartmoor
1872 924 A Surrey Footbridge
from 23 Clarence Road, Kentish Town
1873 54 An English Cottage Home
1874 727 An Easter Holiday
from 136 Camden Road, Northwest London
1875 598 Spring: Peeling Osiers
         861 The Thames at Great Marlow - watercolour
1876 207 Toilers of the Field
         462 Waterlilies
         652 The Thames at Great Marlow
1877 265 Easton Broad, Suffolk
         1029 Wheat: Near Overton, Hants.
1878 28 Waste Land
         68 Whitby Cobbles
1879 221 A Suffolk Marsh
1880 223 Oxford
         460 A Nook in Nature's Garden
1881 580 London: From Greenwich Park
from 84 Fellowes Road, Northwest London
1885 1096 A Village Green
1886 129 The Village Congregation
         1108 June
         1436 'The close of day' - mezzotint
from Dunaison, Steyning, Sussex
1887 1453 In Fold - etching
from 64 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, West London
1888 576 Football
         605 Sussex Gold
         1582 Original mezzotint
1889 693 Carrying the Wheat
         802 Sheep Washing in Sussex
1891 995 Sunday Evening
from 115 Gower Street, London WC
1892 892 The River Piave, Belluno, Venetia
1893 594 Belluno, Venetia
         606 Lancing Mill, Sussex
1894 273 On the South Downs
1895 399 When the Tide is Out
         579 In the Valley of the Arun
1896 114 In the Fen Country
from 162 Adelaide Road, Northwest London
1897 314 Grazing Land
         975 A Hayfield
1898 960 A Wide Pasture
1899 666 Sheep Washing
from 5 Wychcombe Studios, England's Lane, London NW
1900 242 The Top of the Common
from 32 Randolph Gardens, Maida Vale
1901 513 A Lonely Heath
from The Studio, Eton Villas, Steeles Road, Northwest London
1903 413 A Hertfordshire Common
from 5 Wychcombe Studios, England's Lane, London NW
1904 858 The Borderland
1905 198 The Black Mountains
1906 242 The Top of the Common
from 142 Adelaide Road, NW London
1907 765 Dulas Valley
1908 846 Ambersham Common
1909 77 The Castle Valley, Tintagel
1910 597 'The days work is done'
1911 402 On the Barrow Downs, Dorset

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Works by This Artist