Joseph Crawhall 47 High Resolution Images

Joseph Crawhall’s paintings, noted for their refined watercolour technique, capture the grace and vitality of animals and rural scenes, reflecting the innovative spirit of the Glasgow Boys movement.

This download features 47 hi-res images, in JPEG format, by the British animal artist Joseph Crawhall.

The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3030 pixels wide/tall to 5904 pixels wide/tall.

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.

Joseph Crawhall (1861-1913) was an English artist born in Morpeth, Northumberland.

Crawhall was the fourth child and second son of Joseph Crawhall II and Margaret Boyd. Crawhall specialised in painting animals and birds. He was born 20 August 1861 at Morpeth, Northumberland. He trained at King's College London before going to Paris to work with Aimé Morot in 1882.

In the 1880s and 1890s, his work became associated with the Glasgow Boys. The Impressionists strongly influenced him, and his work, like theirs, was rejected by the art establishment, in his case by the Royal Scottish Academy.

In 1887/88 he visited Tangiers with Pollock Nisbet, Robert Alexander and Robert's son Edwin.

In the 1880s he travelled throughout Morocco and Spain, abandoning oil painting and moving to watercolours with a lighter palette.

In April 1894 art dealer Alexander Reid gave Crawhall his first one-man-show, at the inaugural exhibition at Reid's new gallery at 124 St Vincent Street in central Glasgow. The principal buyer of Crawhall's work from this exhibition was William Burrell. Reid had introduced Crawhall and Burrell at a private dinner party at his house on 13 April.

He died in London in May 1913.

Many of Crawhall's works are in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and in the Burrell Collection. His works are few because he is known to have destroyed those he was unhappy with.

A portrait of him by Walter Westley Russell is in the City Art Centre, Edinburgh.