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Waiting for Legal Advice
James Campbell1857
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The picture shows a Liverpool solicitor’s office with a stubborn client waiting, whilst two clerks gossip behind a screen. The little boy is pointing at a spinning top but its meaning is not clear. Campbell was a Liverpool painter, much influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, but the humorous tone of this picture is in an older tradition of Dutch-inspired scenes of everyday life. Similar modern subjects by Frith and others were at the height of their popularity in the late 1850s.
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- Title: Waiting for Legal Advice
- Creator: James Campbell
- Creator Lifespan: 1828/1893
- Creator Nationality: British
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Birkenhead, England
- Creator Birth Place: Liverpool, England
- Date Created: 1857
- Physical Dimensions: w635 x h775 cm (Without frame)
- Artist biographical information: James Campbell was a genre and landscape painter. During the greater part of his career he was known as James Campbell Junior to distinguish him from his father of the same name. His work for a time showed the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites. He started broadening his style in 1862 and at the end of that year moved to London, where he unsuccessfully tried to pursue his career until the mid-1870s. His later work showed a considerable falling off and late in life he became blind.
- Additional artwork information: To learn more about the Walker Art Gallery’s Pre-Raphaelite collection follow this link: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/pre-raphaelites/
- Type: Oil on board
- Rights: Presented by Bancroft Cooke in 1893
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