Donald Maxwell 70 High Resolution Images

British artist Donald Maxwell produced a vast amount of work in his life, with subjects including World War I, ship and naval art, Essex, Sussex, Suffolk, Surrey, Norfolk, Dorset, Somerset, Kent, India, Mesopotamia, Europe and so much more.

This download features 70 hi-res images, in jpeg format, by the British artist Donald Maxwell.

The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 2807 pixels wide/tall to 6335 pixels wide/tall.

This collection features images that have appeared in some of his books, many at a larger size than in the individual books we have listed.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.

Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) was an English writer and illustrator, still notable for his topographical paintings. Several of his works were displayed as prints in railway carriages.

Donald Maxwell was born in Clapham, Surrey (now part of London), the son of Dr Frederick Charles Maxwell, a Methodist clergyman and schoolmaster, and his wife Lucilla, also an illustrator. His father had founded the Manor House School in Clapham in 1876, where Donald's childhood was probably spent. He had at least four siblings: Stanley, Colin, and Gordon (1883-1942), who also became an author and illustrator, and a sister Maud. Both Donald and Gordon became keen yachtsmen and served as official Admiralty artists in World War I.

In 1907, he married Fanny Eveline Marie Morgan (died 1954) and lived with her initially in a yacht moored on the River Thames at Southend-on-Sea named "Puffin". They moved to Rochester, Kent and then to the adjacent village of Borstal, where their elder daughter Audrey Eveline Lucilla was born in 1909. A second daughter, Veronica Edith Stanley, was born in 1914. In 1930, Maxwell bought the large mid-18th century East Farleigh House near Maidstone in Kent, but moved to the late-18th century Goddington House in nearby Harrietsham shortly before he died in 1936, of septicaemia brought on by a chill. He was buried in East Farleigh churchyard.

Maxwell trained in London at the Clapham School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, and the Royal College of Art. He soon began writing and illustrating extensively for The Yachting Monthly and other magazines. In about 1909, he became a regular correspondent for the Daily Graphic and the illustrated weekly The Graphic and continued so until the latter closed in 1932. In later life, he wrote weekly illustrated articles for the Church Times.

Most of Maxwell's self-illustrated books were about voyages in (Europe, Mesopotamia, Palestine, and India) and later about the sights of Southern England. He also illustrated books by many other authors, including Hilaire Belloc and also Rudyard Kipling, to whom his mother was related.

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