Octavius Oakley

Octavius Oakley c.1864

Octavius Oakley RWS (27 April 1800 Bermondsey - 1 March 1867 London), was an English watercolour portrait, figure and landscape artist.^[1]

Oakley worked for a Leeds textile company. He developed into a specialist of portraits in watercolour and was given commissions by the Duke of Devonshire. Whilst living in Derby where he painted rustic scenes until he moved to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire in 1836, but returned to London in the 1840s and worked there until his death, producing paintings of street scenes and gypsies and their lifestyle.^[2] His emphasis on gypsy paintings which he exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society earned him the name 'Gypsy Oakley'.

Oakley met Thomas Baker in Leamington Spa where Baker was living and working and in 1841 did a portrait of the celebrated painter, who was an important figure in the Midlands and Birmingham art world.^[3]

References

1. ^ Lee, Sidney (Ed). Dictionary of national biography, volume 41 (1895) p292.
2. ^ Birmingham Museum
3. ^ Birmingham Museum

External links

• Portraits by A. Oakley (National Portrait Gallery)
• Portrait of Benjamin Gibbons Seated, with a view of Eton College Beyond (Victorian web)

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Name	Oakley, Octavius
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Date of birth	27 April 1800
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Date of death	1 March 1867
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