The Beginning of the Pilgrimage of Grace Lincoln, 1537
Andrew Benjamin Donaldson (1840–1919)
The Collection: Art & Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Usher Gallery)
Andrew B. Donaldson [also known as Andrew Benjamin Donaldson, and as Andrew Brown Donaldson*] was born in Bloomsbury, London, England in c.1840 and attended the Royal Academy Schools in London, He also studied in Rome. Donaldson was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London from 1862 to 1898. He also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, Dudley Gallery, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Suffolk Street Gallery, New Water-Colour Society, and Royal Society of Oil Painters in London; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine arts; and at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. He was a member of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society and exhibited with them in London in 1888, 1890, 1896 and 1903.
In 1870 he painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style the panels for a cabinet made by Collinson & Lock, which was exhibited at the London International Exhibition, 1871.
Donaldson's address was given as 49 London Street, London in 1862 and 1864; 23 Royal Crescent, London in 1867; 9 Duke Street, Portland Place, London in 1869 and 1872; 10 Argyle Road, London in 1876 and 1883; and Devereux House, Daleham Gardens, Fitzjohn Avenue, London in 1884; 6 Daleham Gardens, London in 1885 and 1898. He later lived in Lyndhurst, Hampshire. He died on 29 April 1919. His address at the time of his death was Wood Hay, Lyndhurst, Hampshire.
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* The 1911 England Census and the Probate record on him gives his middle name as Brown; however, it is given as Benjamin in the catalogues of his exhibitions at the Royal Academy.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
