Object Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
British Watercolors |
Catalog Number |
2000.026.020 |
Title |
Dull Day on the Moors |
Artist |
Evans, Bernard Walter |
Object Name |
painting |
Description |
Dull Day on the Moors |
Provenance |
Purchased as part of the British watercolors collection 1966 / 67, in memory of Gloria Dougherty, Dorothy Logan, and Lilian Ross. Bernard Walter Evans (1843 - 1922). Bernard Walter Evans was born on 26 December 1843 at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, the second of 13 children born to Walter Swift Evans and his wife, Sophia (nee Spilsbury). His father, Walter Swift Evans, was also an artist who utilised his creative abilities in a professional capacity, working as an engraver on gold and silver, a copper plate engraver and a master church furniture maker; he was associated with Pugin in the revival of mediaeval architecture. His working life was spent in and around Birmingham. Bernard Evans studied painting in Birmingham from the age of 7, under the direction of Samuel Lines, William Wallis and Edward Watson. He married Mary Ann Eliza Hollyer at St Luke's, Kentish Town. |
Medium |
watercolor on paper |
Catalog date |
2000-02-13 |