Webber's art is held by a number of Australian institutions including the National Portrait Gallery ( William Bligh, c.1776, The Death of Captain Cook (engraving), 1784, and Portrait of Captain James Cook RN, 1782) the Australian National Maritime Museum ( View of Huaheine, 1784) the Art Gallery of New South Wales ( A View in Otaheite Peha, 1785) the National Library of Australia (includes , the John Carter Brown Library, and the Mitchell Library (Australia) are among the public collections holding works by John Webber. The Anchorage Museum of History and Art (Alaska), the Museum of the Aleutians (Alaska), the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Massachusetts), the Yale University Art Gallery, the British Museum, the Sir John Soane's Museum (London), The National Maritime Museum (London), the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Another version of this picture is in the William Dixson gallery at Sydney. Resolution shooting sea horses", which was shown at the academy in 1784, and his "The Death of Captain Cook" became well known through an engraving of it. Sometimes figures were included as in "A Party from H.M.S. His drawings and paintings were engraved for the British Admiralty's account of the expedition, which was published in 1784.īack in England in 1780 Webber exhibited around 50 works at Royal Academy exhibitions between 17, and was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1785 and R.A. Webber made watercolour landscapes including "Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778". The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. In April 1778, Captain Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. He made numerous watercolor landscapes of the islands of Kauai and Hawaii, and also portrayed many of the Hawaiian people. On this voyage, during which Cook lost his life in a fight in Hawaii, Webber became the first European artist to make contact with Hawaii, then called the Sandwich Islands. He also did many drawings of scenes in New Zealand and the South Sea islands. At Adventure Bay in January 1777 he did drawings of "A Man of Van Diemen's Land" and "A Woman of Van Diemen's Land". Webber served as official artist on James Cook's third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776–1880) aboard HMS Resolution. His father was Abraham Wäber, a Swiss sculptor who had moved to London, and changed his name to Webber before marrying a Mrs Mary Quant in 1744. Webber was born in London, educated in Bern and studied painting at Paris. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska. John Webber RA (6 October 1751 – ) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. Resolution shooting sea horses", Kealakekua Bay and the Village Kowroaa "Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778" "A Party from H.M.S.
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