Charles Towne

Charles Towne was a British artist known for his landscape paintings and depictions of animals. His father Richard was also an artist specializing in portraiture. Towne's talent for art and painting was already apparent in his childhood. In lessons with the landscape painter John Rathbone he learned important techniques and received valuable encouragement. The first artistic works of Charles Towne were limited to the artistic decoration of carriages. With time, further exciting possibilities for artistic self-realization arose. In 1787 his career received new impetus. The starting point was the exhibition of one of his landscape paintings in Liverpool in 1787, after which it took Charles Towne only a few years to make a reputation as an animal and landscape painter. In 1799, the artist moved to London, where he spent some eventful years. During this period, he was even able to exhibit his works at the Royal Academy of Arts, one of the most important British art institutions. The London time was marked by an intensive artistic work and many interesting meetings with artists of his time. In 1810, Towne returned to Liverpool. There he founded the Liverpool Academy of Arts together with other colleagues. He used this forum to regularly exhibit his own works. In the year 1837, the longing for the metropolis London seized him. He spent the last part of his life there until his death in 1840.