Joseph Edward Southall
Revived tempera painting in Arts and Crafts
Joseph Edward Southall was an English painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. A leading figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century revival of painting in tempera, Southall was the leader of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen—one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the later Pre-Raphaelites and the turn of the century Slade Symbolists. A lifelong Quaker, Southall was an active socialist and pacifist, initially as a radical member of the Liberal Party and later of the Independent Labour Party. Southall was elected an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) in 1898 and Member in 1902. He became President of the Society in 1939 and stayed in this post until his death in 1944.
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Master student
- Arthur Joseph Gaskin Student
Artworks by this artist
- The Daughter Of Herodias (Salome) 1904
- Portrait Of Anne Elizabeth Baker (1859-1947) 1887
- Castiglione D’Olona, Lombardy 1913
- Fisherman with a bucket, Southwold 1912
- Sigismonda Drinking The Poison
- Portrait Of The Artist’s Mother 1902
- Calais 1913
- Marco Polo’s house, Venice, Italy 1883
- View of Polruan across the Fowey estuary, Cornwall 1928
- Portrait of Sir Whitworth Wallis (1855-1927) 1927
- Ariadne in Naxos 1925
- Figure Of Peace 1937
- Fisherman Carrying a Sail 1907
- Portrait of the artist’s nephew, Edward Stafford Allen 1896
- Self-portrait 1943
- Study for St Dorothea and Her Two Sisters Refusing to Worship the Idol 1901
- The Mill Cottage, Harlech, North Wales 1916
- New Lamps for Old
- Corporation Street, Birmingham in March 1914
- Beauty Receiving the White Rose from her Father 1899