Old Castle Lodge and Lock Gates, North Road (wate)

Helsby, J.R.S. (Artist)

View showing thatched cottage next to the Canal. Signed and dated in pencil at bottom right. Title in pencil at bottom right.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

1994.171

Historical Associations

Association Type: Place name

Date: 1924

Place: North Road

Creation/Production

Helsby, J.R.S.

He is probably the Joseph Rayner Stephens Helsby who was born in West Derby, Liverpool in about 1861. On the 1881 census he was an "art student (watercolour)" at St. Asaph, and in 1891 was living in 6 Wellington Terrace, Canton, Cardiff and was a "portrait & landscaper painter", by 1911 he was still in Cardiff at 25 Lower Cathedral Road with occupation "landscape artist". He died in 1925 at Cardiff aged 64. It seems likely he was named after the famous Methodist Minister Joseph Rayner Stephens.

Role: Artist

Period: 1924

Acquisition

collected officially

Measurements

Length (mm): 294

Width (mm): 409

Techniques

Watercolour on paper

Painting and drawing

Material

Paper

Classification

buildings

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Bronze Age Gold from Wales