Le Havre – The Artists – Callow, William

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Le Havre. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

William Callow (1812–1908) was an English landscape painter, engraver and water colourist. He was apprenticed to the artist Copley Fielding, where he learnt the technique of plein air sketching. He went on to study under Theodore and Thales Fielding, where he learnt to colour prints and make aquatints, and was taught watercolor painting between 1825-7.

In 1829 Thales Fielding found him work as an engraver in Paris, where he worked alongside his friend Charles Bentley. While in the French capital he was encouraged by Thomas Shotter Boys to take up watercolours again.

He travelled extensively in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, had a large number of pupils, and enjoyed favour with the royal family.

Click here to read Callow’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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TODAY: The fortified wall/tower you see above and below no longer exists.

Lillebonne

The city of Lillebonne (population: 9,000) lies to the East of Le Havre. It is known for a rather big roman amphitheatre.

TODAY: There are still a few towers left in Lillebonne, most of them in ruins. This might be the one he painted.

Quillebeuf-sur-Seine

Quillebeuf, now called Quillebeuf-sur-Seine, lies in another “departement” (=state) then the one Le Havre lies in, but it lies close to Le Havre. It is located to the East and is situated on the Seine river.

William Callow painted several other places in France, see the list below (a link “⇠” to his works will appear below when published):

• Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
  • Lyon
• Bourgogne-Franche-Comte
  • Auxerre
• Brittany
  • Dinan
  • Saint-Malo
• Centre-Val de Loire
  • Blois
  • Chartres
  • Montrichard
  • Tours
• Hauts-de-France
  • Boulogne-sur-Mer
  • Calais
• Normandy
  • Caen ⇠
  • Caudebec-en-Caux ⇠
  • Dieppe ⇠
  • Evreux
  • Fecamp ⇠
  • Granville
  • Honfleur
  • Le Havre (and surroundings)⇠
    • Lillebonne ⇠
    • Quillebeuf-sur-Seine ⇠
  • Le Treport
  • Mont Saint-Michel
  • Rouen
  • Veules-les-Roses (surrounding only)
    • Saint-Valery-en-Caux
• Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  • Angouleme
  • Bayonne
• Occitanie
  • Auch
  • Lourdes
  • Montpellier
  • Toulouse
  • Villeneuve-les-Avignon
• Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
  • Aix-en-Provence
  • Avignon
  • Marseille
  • Nice

Here are the painters/artists who painted in Le Havre (a “*” indicates that the artist did not worked directly in Le Havre itself, instead worked closeby):

• 🇫🇷 Adam, Edouard Marie ⇠
• 🇷🇺 Beggrov, Alexander ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Binet, George ⇠
• 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers ⇠
• 🇷🇺 Bogoliubo, Alexei ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Bruelle, Gaston ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Callow, William ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Cameron, David Young ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Ciceri, Eugene *
• 🇫🇷 Coignet, Jules ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Cooke, Edward William ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Crepin, Louis-Philippe ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Cyr, Georges Albert ⇠
• 🇫🇷 de Saint-Delis, Henri ⇠
• 🇫🇷 de Saint-Delis, Rene ⇠
• 🇳🇱 Dommersen, William ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Dubourg, Louis-Alexandre ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Dufy, Jean ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Dufy, Raoul ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Gernez, Paul-Elie ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Goeneutte, Norbert ⇠
• 🇷🇺 Gritsenko, Nikolai ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Gudin, Theodore ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Guerard, Henri ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Guillaumin, Armand *
• 🇫🇷 Hervier, Louis ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Holland, James ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Huet, Paul ⇠
• 🇳🇱 Jongkind, Johan Barthold ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Kay, James ⇠
• 🇳🇱 Le Gray, Gustave ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Lebourg, Albert ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Lee-Hankey, William ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Lepoittevin, Eugene ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Leprince, Auguste-Xavier ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Letellier, Emile-Andre ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Loir, Luigi ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Loiseau, Gustave ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Luce, Maximilien ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Madelain, Gustave ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Marquet, Albert ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Maufra, Maxime ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Maze, Paul
• 🇫🇷 Monet, Claude ⇠
• 🇨🇦 Morrice, James Wilson ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Mozin, Charles-Louis ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Noel, Alexandre Jean ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Noel, Jules Achille ⇠
• 🇸🇪 Osslund, Helmer ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Pecrus, Charles Francois ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Petitjean, Edmond Marie ⇠
• 🇩🇰 Pissarro, Camille ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Pissarro, Lucien *
• 🇬🇧 Prout, Samuel *
• 🇫🇷 Robert, Hubert ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick ⇠
• 🇧🇪 Stevens, Alfred Emile Leopold ⇠
• 🇳🇱 Ten Cate, Siebe Johannes ⇠
• 🇳🇴 Thaulow, Fritz ⇠
• 🇫🇷 Thornley, Georges William ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Turner, Joseph Mallord William ⇠
• 🇨🇭 Vallotton, Felix ⇠
• 🇬🇧 Wadsworth, Edward ⇠

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