Paul Falconer Poole

Paul Falconer Poole RA
Portrait by John Dawson Watson
Born	(1807-12-28)December 28, 1807 Bristol, England
Died	September 22, 1879(1879-09-22) (aged 71) London, England
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Known for	Painting
Style	subject and genre Paintings

Paul Falconer Poole RA (1807–1879) was a British subject and genre painter. Though self-taught, his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy, and dramatic power gained Poole a high position among British artists.[1]

Early life

Paul Falconer Poole was born on 28 December 1807[2] at 43 College Street in Bristol, England,[3] the fourth son of James Paul Poole, a Bristol coal merchant.[3]

Career

Poole exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being The Well, a scene in Naples.[4] There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his Farewell, Farewell in 1837, which was followed by the Emigrant's Departure,[5] Hermann and Dorothea and By the Waters of Babylon. In 1843, his position was made secure by his Solomon Eagle,[6] and by his success in the Cartoon Exhibition, in which he received from the Fine Art Commissioners a prize of £300 sterling.

After his exhibition of the Surrender of Syon House, he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1846, and was made an academician in 1861. In the 1850s, he lived at 43 Camden Road Villas (now 203 Camden Rd) near Camden Town.

Personal life

Poole was a close friend of landscape artist Thomas Danby (c. 1818–1886) with whom he shared a house in Hampstead, London for a time.[3]

Death

Grave of Paul Falconer Poole in Highgate Cemetery

Poole died on 22 September 1879[2] and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

References

Citations

1. "Paintings by Paul Falconer Poole, RA (1807–79)". Victorian Web. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
2. "Paul Falconer Poole RA (1807–1879)". Royal Academy.
3. "Poole, Paul Falconer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22519. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. "Paul Falconer Poole". The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
5. Koehler, S. R.; Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (1882). English Painters: With a Chapter on American Painters. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-2439-3.
6. "Solomon Eagle". Art UK.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Poole, Paul Falconer". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• 43 artworks by or after Paul Falconer Poole at the Art UK site
• P F Poole online (ArtCyclopedia)
• Works by P F Poole (Bridgeman Art Gallery)
• Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections