• Source: James Campbell Noble

      • James Campbell Noble (22 July 1845 – 25 September 1913) was a Scottish painter. He signed his paintings, mostly in the left hand bottom corner, as J.C. Noble or as J.Campbell Noble.


      Education


      He initially studied at the board of manufacturing in Edinburgh and then the Royal Scottish Academy schools under William McTaggart and George Paul Chalmers.


      Biography



      James Campbell Noble was born in Edinburgh on 22 July 1845, the son of James Noble and Rachel Campbell.
      Three of his cousins were also artists: Robert Noble (1857–1917), James Inglis Noble (1853-1912), and David Noble (1865-1890). J.C. Noble apprenticed Robert in 1871 and possibly taught the other two cousins as well.
      He traveled throughout Europe to paint, where the Netherlands and Italy were particularly favorites. He had a studio on Picardy Place and was a teacher at the Royal Scottish Academy art class on The Mound and at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place. His pupils included Robert Gemmell Hutchison.
      Initially he began with rustic genre like dark cottages and outside life. Then when he became a member of ARSA in 1879 and the Royal Scottish Academy in 1892, he abandoned the previous subject for land- and seascape scenery and marine paintings of rivers and ports. He painted the scenery on the Clyde, Seine, Tyne, Merwede, Maas (Meus) and Rhine.
      For a long part of his live he lived in the Netherlands where his favorite port for painting seemed to have been Dordrecht, Dort for short. There are quite a number of his oil paintings painted in this harbour facility, which also seem to have attracted other painters. However he also painted in places like 's-Gravendeel, Volendam and Zaandam. In the early 1880s he painted the rocky coastal scenes of Berwickshire whilst he was living in Coldingham. He returned however to the Netherlands in 1900 painting the Dutch waterways again.
      Towards the end of his life he lived again in Scotland, where he lived in Dumfries and Galloway and where he is also mentioned in Corstorphine in 1896. His Sunset near Glencaple exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy in 1913. His portrait was painted by the well known portrait painter John Pettie and is exhibited in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
      In later life he lived at 12 Queen Street in Edinburgh's First New Town.
      He died on 25 September 1913 whilst in Ledaig, Argyll.
      He is buried in Rosebank Cemetery in Edinburgh midway along the eastern path of the main area. His cousin Robert Noble RSA lies alongside.


      Exhibited


      Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, Liverpool Museum, Aberdeen Artists Society; Royal Academy in London from 1880 to 1896.


      Works and locations


      See

      A Watermill : Lawrence House Museum
      The Old Wharf, Dordrecht, Holland : Victoria Art Gellery
      Tarbet : Sheffield Museum
      A Study : Glasgow Museums
      A Dutch Scene : Liverpool Museums
      Sunday Morning : Liverpool Museums
      Looking up Strathspey, Aberdeen Art Gallery
      Dordrecht : Fife Council
      Outward Bound : Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling
      Harbour Scene with Fishing Boats : Perth and Kinross Council
      A Grey Day with Dutch Fishing Boats : Perth and Kinross Council
      Half-tide Rocks, East Coast Berwickshire : Royal Scottish Academy
      Waves : National Trust for Scotland
      Dutch Canal Scene : National Trust for Scotland
      Sunset near Glencaple on Solway : National Gallery of Scotland


      See also


      List of Scots


      References


      The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, compiled by J.Johnson and A. Greutzner, Antique Collectors Club, 1976, Baron Publishing, Woodbridge, Suffolk
      Portrait by John Pettie, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
      The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, 2nd Edition, by Christopher Wood, 1978
      The Allgemeines Kuenstlerlexikon Deutschland mentions his birth date as 22 Juli 1846


      External links



      The Lyndacottage Gallery
      Bournefineart
      Pictures in the Wikigallery

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