John DOUGLAS
Douglas was born in Norfolk, and came to St Ives in about 1890, exhibiting first with the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society in 1896. In 1897 he married fellow artist Mabel BUCKNALL, and the couple worked from Skidden Hill Studios. Though originally a marine and landscape painter, he is probably best known for his photographic work (used to illustrate three books by Folliott STOKES published between 1908 and 1912).
He was a signatory of the Glanville letter [repr Tovey (2009)] sent in November 1898 to the St Ives Council expressing artists' concerns about insensitive plans for development in the town.
media
Landscape and marine painter; photographer
works and access
Works include: Westerly Gale; Kynance; Wind and Tide; Study in Blue; A Fisherman's Paradise
Portraits: Mrs Barry; Mrs Sargent; Mr Spicer (miniature)
Access to work: A number of his photographs can be seen in Andrew Lanyon's A St Ives Album (Penzance, 1979)
His photographs used to illustrate three books by Folliott Stokes published between 1908 and 1912.
In the possession of the George Lloyd Music Library in Kendal, Cumbria: A folder of mounted photographic prints of St Ives.
exhibitions
RCPS 1896
St Ives Show Day 1920
STISA Show Days 1928-36 and 1932, 1934 and 1936 Touring Shows
memberships
STISA 1927-38
STIAC 1898
Arts Club 1925 (President)
misc further info
references
St Ives Times 5 Mar 1920
Cornishman and Cornish Telegraph Aug 8 1928
1901 Census;
Folliott Stokes Cornish Coast and Moors
Glanville letter signatory (repr Tovey 2009)
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p322)
Lanyon A St Ives Album;
Tovey (2000) GF Bradshaw & STISA (Appendix 3: Principal Members of STISA 1927-1960)
(2003) Creating a Splash;
(2009) St Ives: Social History;
Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1883-1900 list, p 210)