Octavius Oakley

1 works by Octavius Oakley (British, 1800–1867) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.

Octavius Oakley RWS, was a British watercolour portrait, figure and landscape artist. He is mainly known for watercolour portraits commissioned by the sitters, often the rich and famous, and genre portraits of gypsy fortune-tellers and similar figures. Both types are typically half or full-length.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

At a glance

Most of Octavius Oakley's work on the site falls under Landscape (1).

By movement, it's catalogued as Baroque (1).

Culture: English (1).

By orientation: 1 landscape.

Other British artists of the period

Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:

• George Cruikshank — 381 artworks
• Edward Lear — 316 artworks
• Anna Atkins — 313 artworks
• Sir John Tenniel — 240 artworks
• Francis Seymour Haden — 237 artworks
• Thomas Girtin — 152 artworks
• Hablot Knight Browne — 145 artworks
• John Buckler — 122 artworks

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