Cattle Crossing Salt Marsh, storm coming on.
The Book
The book traces Richard Beavis’ journey from thefishing town of Sidmouth to the Royal Academy inLondon, the Empire Exhibition, furniture designawards, manor house decorations and travelsthrough France, Holland, Spain, Italy and Egyptand the Sinai, all the while painting in water coloursand oils.
121 pages including 45 paintings in full colour, numerous sketches and Index.
Drawing Timber in Picardy 1866
Richard BEAVIS RWS
Born in 1824 in Exmouth, Devon, Richard Beavis RWS was the second son of William Beavis and his wife Elizabeth Taylor. Bereft at the loss of his mother, brother and baby sister all in the space of a year, Richard aged eight, found solace in drawing on the walls of his bedroom.
The evident artistic talent of the young boy astonished many. This book traces Richard Beavis' journey from the fishing town of Sidmouth to the Royal Academy in London, The Empire Exhibition, furniture design awards, manor house decorations and travels through France, Holland, Spain, Italy, Egypt and the Sinai all the while painting in water colours and oils.
His most noted achievement being the commission from the Prince of Wales to paint four enormous cartoons in oils, in mirror image, for the Royal Tapestry Works. The tapestries hang in Mansion House, London.
The Charcoal Burners 1874. Courtesy National Gallery of Victoria
ROYAL TAPESTRY WORKS WINDSOR
RICHARD BEAVIS' SKETCHES
SIDMOUTH
White’s ‘Devonshire Directory’ of 1850 is a fourth updated edition of the Rev. Edmund Butcher 1757 – 1822, description of Sidmouth;
‘Sidmouth ranks next to Torquay and Exmouth among the fashionable watering places on the southern coast of Devonshire, ….It is a pretty market town and bathing place,….distant 16 miles E. by S. of Exeter, 6 miles S. by E. of Ottery St Mary, and 10 miles E.N.E. of Exmouth. Its parish contains 1539 acres of land, and increased its population from 1252 in 1801, to 3309 souls in 1841, and they have since been augmented to about 4000….
‘Sidmouth ranks next to Torquay and Exmouth among the fashionable watering places on the southern coast of Devonshire, ….It is a pretty market town and bathing place,….distant 16 miles E. by S. of Exeter, 6 miles S. by E. of Ottery St Mary, and 10 miles E.N.E. of Exmouth. Its parish contains 1539 acres of land, and increased its population from 1252 in 1801, to 3309 souls in 1841, and they have since been augmented to about 4000….
Map of East Devon and location of Sidmouth on Lyme Bay.
