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William Day

William Day (1764 - 1807) was active/lived in England.  William Day is known for Landscape and rocky formation paintings, sketchings and drawings.

William Day was largely unknown until the discovery in 1951 of a large group of his drawings. An amateur artist, and a draper by trade, he exhibited at the Royal Academy as an ‘Honorary Exhibitor’, that is, not a professional artist, from 1782 to 1801. 

He lived largely in London, but much of his family was in Sussex, and he went there regularly to paint views including that of Old Roare Waterfall near Hastings in the present group (lot 194). His first Royal Academy exhibit, in 1782, was a View in Sussex. Judy Egerton records William Day’s interests, noted in family documents, as ‘Geology, Minerolagy, and Painting’, in that order (J. Egerton, op.cit, p. 177). 

He was known to his descendants as ‘Rocky Day’, and formed one of the earliest private collections of minerals in England, always carrying a specimen bag with him on his sketching tours. Initially self-taught, Day became friends with the artist John Webber (1751-1793) in 1787, when he was 23, and the t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2289 characters.]  Artist bio

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