John William Inchbold

British | 1830 - 1888

John William Inchbold was a British 19th Century artist who was born in 1830. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Ashmolean Museum have featured John William Inchbold's work in the past.John William Inchbold's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 500 USD to 63,971 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 63,971 USD for Venice from the Lido to Giudecca, sold at Christie's London in 2021. John William Inchbold has been featured in articles for BBC News, Apollo and Washington City Paper. The most recent article is One Couple’s Victorian ‘Clutter’ Is Expected to Make over £1m at Auction written for Telegraph in September 2021. The artist died in 1888.

A view of Greenwich with the Naval Hospital, London

pencil and watercolour

13½ x 20½ in. (34.3 x 52.1 cm.)

THE LAKE OF GENEVA, FROM THE NORTH

oil on canvas

An Artist Painting by the Sea: Mediterranean Coastal Scene - John William Inchbold

An Artist Painting by the Sea: Mediterranean Coastal Scene, 1887

watercolour heightened with bodycolour

17 by 35cm., 6¾ by 13¾in

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

A Bypath to Chamouni

By John William Inchbold

KCM Galleries

Charing Cross

By John William Inchbold

KCM Galleries

Lake Geneva from Montreux, Switzerland

By John William Inchbold

+78%

above mid-estimate

Bonhams Knightsbridge

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Past Exhibitions

Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours

Ashmolean Museum

Oxford | UK

May 18,2021 - Jun 20,2021

Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud: Watercolours and Drawings

York Art Gallery

York | UK

Mar 29,2019 - Jun 23,2019

The Sculpture Collections

Henry Moore Institute Galleries

Leeds | UK

Mar 22,2018 - Sep 02,2018

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Articles

One Couple’s Victorian ‘Clutter’ Is Expected to Make over £1m at Auction

Telegraph 07/09/2021

The vast collection of museum-grade works was started in the 1950s when prices were rock bottom A collection of over 300 museum-worthy 19th-century paintings and decorative works of art ...

Stonehenge in Art

BBC News 26/10/2018

Friday 26th October 2018 marked 100 years since Stonehenge was given to the nation by Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb (1876–1934).

‘There is enduring interest in the stories of the Pre-Raphaelites’

Apollo 15/01/2018

In July 2013 at Christie’s London, a handful of collectors competed for a Pre-Raphaelite watercolour.

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Coverage

“ ..Photography's ability to quickly translate the material world into an image challenged painters to find alternate versions of realism... ”
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National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

“ ..A sense of immediacy and physicality characterises these works: some of them are beautifully finished while others are left as works in progress, keeping the subject alive and allowing for the viewer to... ”
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The Fine Art Society, London

“ ..Photographers, in turn, looked to Pre-Raphaelite subject matter and visual strategies in order to legitimize photography's status as a fine art... ”
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National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.