Artist: James Collinson (1825 - 1881)
Nationality: English
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Media: Painting
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Biography:
James Collinson was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He abandoned the group two years after it’s founding because he thought it contradicted his Roman Catholic faith. Collinson began training to become a priest in 1852 but returned to painting two years later.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Heath, James II, 18th - 19th century
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James Bard - Steamship James Fisk, Jr. 1870 oil on board Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Basire, Sr., Portrait of Sir James Burrow, 18th - 19th century
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: attributed to James Frothingham Title: Portrait of Rev. James M. Winchell. Date: 19th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Beard, Dog with Puppies , 1863
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
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Joseph Jonathan Blackburn - James Pitts 1757 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Joseph Jonathan Blackburn - Mrs. James Pitts 1757 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Jacob Eichholtz - James P. Smith c. 1835 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Mrs. James Cruikshank c. 1805-08 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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Sir Henry Raeburn - James Cruikshank c. 1805-08 oil on canvas The Frick Collection British
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El Greco - Portrait of St. James the Less c. 1595 oil on canvas The Hyde Collection Greek/Spanish
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Matthew Harris Jouett - James G. McKinney n.d. oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Daniel Huntington - Dr. James Hall 1857 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - James Madison c. 1821 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Joseph Badger - James Bowdoin 1746-47 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Jeremiah Theus - James Cuthbert c. 1765 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - James Munroe c. 1817 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James B. Moore, Untitled [Bag and two walnuts], circa 1980
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Anonymous, Portrait of James Albert Clark, 1884
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Francis Burney, James Thomson, frontispiece in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802), 1801
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Cecilia Beaux - Portrait of James V. Watson c. 1893 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Gilbert Charles Stuart - Portrait of James Ward 1779 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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George Romney - Colonel James Clitherow 1784 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester British
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Robert J. Wickenden - James Edmund Scripps 19th-20th centu oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - Dr. James Stuart c. 1815 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Tissot, Le Matin, 1886
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E.E. Cummings - James Sibley Watson n.d. oil on pulp board Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Matthew Brady - John James Audubon c. 1847-48 daguerreotype, half Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Matthew Brady - John James Audubon c. 1847-48 daguerreotype, half Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Henry Inman - Portrait of Mrs. James W. Wallack c. 1828 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Henri Fantin-Latour - Duchess de Fitz-James 1867 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Henri Fantin-Latour - Mademoiselle de Fitz-James 1867 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Twelve Apostles: Saints Bartholomew, Andrew, Matthew, James the Greater, Thaddeus, Philip, James the Lesser,
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Montgomery Flagg, I Want You, 1917
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Sharples, The Forge, 1859
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Ensor, The Gendarmes, 1888
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Ensor, The Assassination, 1888
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Ferdinand Hodler - James Vibert, Sculptor 1907 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Dutch
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
James Guitet, Gravure, 1962

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: oots of Creativity: Landscapes by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger, but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing...
Christie's: The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art on View at Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh
The sale will also profile rare works by lesser-known artists of the Victoria period as the collection spans the key artists and the themes of the period to offer artworks to suit all levels of collecting. "The Forbes Collection of Victorian...

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James Collinson Online
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James Collinson
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James Collinson/Mary Alderson
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