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Joseph Clark
ROI
Joseph Clark ROI
	Clark's "Three little kittens", 1883
Born	4 July 1834; Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England
Died	4 July 1926 (aged 92); Ramsgate, Thanet, Kent, England
Nationality	English
Education	J. M. Leigh's Art School
Known for	Painting
Notable work	domestic scenes
Spouse	Annie Jones

Joseph Clark (4 July 1834 – 4 July 1926) was an English oil painter, well known in the Victorian era for his domestic scenes, especially of children.

Life

Born in 1834 in Cerne Abbas, Dorset,^[1] from the age of eleven Clark was educated as a boarder by William Barnes at his school in Dorchester, and according to a study of the school "exploited Barnes's training perhaps more successfully than any other pupil".^[2]^[3]

His parents brought Clark up as a member of the Swedenborgian New Church, and he remained a member all his life.^[3] By 1851, Clark's father had died, and he was living at 13, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, with his widowed mother, who was a retired draper, and two older unmarried sisters, Mary and Emma.^{[n 1]} He went on to train at J. M. Leigh's art school and became a successful artist at an early age, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1857 and 1904. Victorian Painters sums him up as a "painter of domestic genre of a tender and affecting nature, usually of children and a few biblical subjects".^[4] He was elected a Member of the Institute of Oil Painters,^[1] which had a membership limited to one hundred.^[5] Some of his paintings were named in the Dorset dialect,^[3] in which his schoolmaster William Barnes wrote poetry.^[6] "Jeanes Wedden Day in Mornen", which is also the title of a poem by Barnes,^[7] is an example of this.^[3]

In 1868, at Winchester, Clark married Annie Jones, a daughter of John Jones, of Winchester, and they went on to have one son and three daughters.^{[n 2]}^[1] He was also the uncle of another artist, Joseph Benwell Clark.^[4]

Clark died at 95 Hereson Road, Ramsgate, Kent, on 4 July 1926, his 92nd birthday.^{[n 3]}^[1]^[8]

Notes

^ 1851 United Kingdom census, Long Street, Cerne Abbas at ancestry.co.uk, accessed 8 October 2020 (subscription required)
^ "Jones, Annie, Winchester 2c 184" and "Clark, Joseph, Winchester 2c 184" in General Index to Marriages in England and Wales, 1868
^ "Clark, Joseph, 92 / Thanet 2a 1037" in General Index to Deaths in England and Wales, 1926

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Clark, Joseph, (4 July 1834–4 July 1926)", in Who Was Who 1916–1928 (1992 reprint, ISBN 0-7136-3143-0): "Member of Institute of Oil Painters, Born Cerne Abbas, Dorsetshire, 4 July 1834; m 1868, d of John Jones, Winchester; one s three d; died 4 July 1926"
^ T. W. Hearl, William Barnes, 1801–1886, the Schoolmaster: A Study of Education in the Life and Work of the Dorset Poet (Friary Press, 1966), p. 205: "Joseph Clark, who came from Cerne Abbas to join the school as a boarder of 11 , in 1845 or early 1846 , exploited Barnes's training perhaps more successfully than any other pupil..."
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Joseph Clark (1834–1926) Artist in Oils at Dorset Ancestors, accessed 8 October 2020
^ ^a ^b "Clark, Joseph ROI 1834–1926" in Christopher Wood, Christopher Newall, Margaret Richardson, Victorian Painters (Antique Collectors' Club, 2008), p. 101
^ Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain: A Handbook Compiled from Official Sources, Vol. 61 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964), p. 184
^ William Barnes in Encyclopædia Britannica, archive.org, accessed 17 October 2020
^ William Barnes, ed. Bernard Jones, The Poems of William Barnes, Vol. 1 (Centaur Press, 1962), 110; "Jeanes Wedden Day in Mornen", from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect at WikiSource
^ "Veteran artist: death at Ramsgate". Thanet Advertiser. British Newspaper Archive. 28 August 1926. p. 6 col.7. Retrieved 29 November 2021.