Thomas Daniell

Feroz Shah Kotla remains, Delhi, Aquatint dated 1795 by Thomas Daniell. The view was later reproduced on a Staffordshire earthenware dish ca 1810-20.

Thomas Daniell (1749 – 19 March 1840) was an English landscape painter.

Life

Thomas Daniell was born in 1749 at the Chertsey inn, kept by his father, and was apprenticed to an heraldic painter. Daniell, however, was animated with a love of the romantic and beautiful in architecture and nature. Up to 1784, he painted topographical subjects and flower pieces. By this time, his two nephews had come under his influence, the younger, Samuel, being apprenticed to the landscape engraver Thomas Medland, and the elder, William, being under his own care. In this year (1784), he embarked for India accompanied by William Daniell, and found at Calcutta ample encouragement. He stayed there for ten years, and on returning to London published his largest work, Oriental Scenery, in six large volumes, not completed until 1808. From 1795 until 1828, he continued to exhibit Eastern subjects, temples, jungle hunts etc., and at the same time continued the publication of illustrated works. These are Views of Calcutta; Oriental Scenery, 144 plates; Views in Egypt; Excavations at Ellora; Picturesque Voyage to China. These were, for the most part, executed in aquatint.

He was elected a Royal Academician in 1790, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts about the same time, and at different times was a member of several minor societies. His nephews both died before him. His Indian period had made him independent, and he lived a bachelor life at Kensington till his death.

Gallery

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  Taj Mahal

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  Shivala Ghat, Benares

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  Hindu temples on the river at Jumna, India

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  Government House, India

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  Banyan tree with Hindu temples

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  A scene near Cotumba (Southern India)

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  S.W. view of the Fakir's Rock in the River Ganges, near Sultanganj (Bihar)

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  Village near Naya Serai (Bengal)

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  Palace of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula at Lucknow

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  Mountain of Ellora

See also

• James Forbes (artist)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• D. G. Godse's essay on Daniell's painting of Peshwa court at Pune (circa 1805) is included in his book "Samande Talāśa समंदे तलाश" (Sreevidya Prakashan 1981)
• Daniell's painting (c 1805), commissioned by Sir Charles Warre Malet Bt., of Peshwa court depicting an event dated 6th August 1790

External links

• Europeana: Images by Thomas Daniell

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Date of birth	1749
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Date of death	19 March 1840
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