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 HOLLAND (JAMES).
B. 1800. D. 1870.

James Holland was born at Burslem, in Stafiordshire, in 1800.
His grandfather, Thomas Holland, was the first manufacturer of
a highly-glazed black pottery, at that time largely exported to
America, and it is said that young Holland derived his first taste for
art from studies of flowers painted on this ware. In 1819 he came
to London, where he began his professional career as a flower-
painter. Subsequently a love of Thames scenery and shipping
induced him to turn his attention to landscape painting. '

In 1835 Holland was elected an Associate of the Society
of Painters in Water Colours, at Whose gallery he afterwards
frequently exhibited. The same year he travelled in Italy, and
during his stay there painted a large view of the interior of Milan
Cathedral, which was exhibited at the Sufiolk St. Gallery, as
well as a notable picture of the Rialto at Venice, which he sent to
the British Institution. In 1837 he was engaged by the proprietor
of the “Landscape Annual ” to execute, for that magazine, a
series of views in Portugal, which were engraved in 1839. On his
way back from Lisbon he painted “The Tomb of the Scaligers,” at
Verona, for Mr. Hollier, who also gave him a commission for a
large picture of Greenwich Hospital. This work was eventually-

presented by Mrs. Hollier to that institution, where it still remains.
Holland afterwards painted other views of the same building for
the Earl of Ellesmere, Lord Charles Townsend, and Mr. John
Foster, of Liverpool. In 1841 he visited Paris, where he made
several drawings which commanded a ready sale. He went to
Rotterdam in 1845, and five years later made a tour in Normandy,
whence he brought back numerous sketches of architecture,
costume, and scenery. In 1851 he went to Geneva, making
studies of a similar kind, which he afterwards turned to good
account. To the Universal Exhibition, held at Paris in 1855,
Holland contributed three works which obtained “ honourable
mention ” from the jury for awards.

In 1857 he re-visited Venice and the Tyrol, and collected
materials for pictures afterwards exhibited at the Gallery of
the Royal Water Colour Society (Where he was now admitted
?to full membership), and at the London Exhibition of 1862.

= e died on the 12th of Februa . 1870.