Magnificent Watercolour Of Granada Viewed From The Alhambra Signed And Dated 1883

magnificent watercolour of Granada viewed from the Alhambra signed and dated 1883

34.5 x 49.5 58 x 71
Henry Stainer
Painter of flowers, genre scenes and architectural subjects in oils and watercolours; born Birmingham c.1831, died 1894 (see obituary Birmingham Daily Post, Saturday 27 January 1894, issue 11110). Lived in Birmingham, where he studied at the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design. He appears to have worked first as a painter in the firm of Jennens & Bettridge, one of the best known Japanese factories of the 19th century, and is recorded as the painter of a tea tray exhibited by Walton & Co of Wolverhampton at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He then settled in Granada, Spain, where he served as vice-consul. His later works include Spanish scenes and views of the Alhambra. Many of his Granada compositions were reproduced for the tourist market, so it is possible that he sometimes worked from photographs. In 1888 two of his Spanish watercolours were purchased from the artist by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. They were exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street.