Reginald Aspinwall ARCA (1858-1921)

Reginald ASPINWALL ARCA. 1855-1921
Life: Aspinwall was a painter of landscapes and coastal paintings in oils and watercolour. He was born in Preston, Lancashire (3 January 1855 GRO), the son of John Aspinwall, a newspaper reporter, and his wife Jane, nee Clemmey. He moved to Lancaster in the early 1870s, where he did most of his painting and latterly died aged 63. The 1871 Census lists Reginald Aspinwall as an apprentice at the School of Art, Christchurch, Preston.
A portrait of the artist by J Cross is owned by Lancaster City Museum, and a reproduction can be viewed at www.lancs.ac.uk His titles include Mountain Mists, Home with the Evening Tide (1886) and Arnside. Known date of a connection to West Cornwall is a Newlyn title in 1886.
Works in public collections: A portrait of the artist by J Cross (Lancaster City Museum: a reproduction can be viewed at www.lancs.ac.uk). Access to work: Wessex Gallery (Mountain Mists ); Brunswick Gallery (Arnside); Hardie 2009: colour plate “Home with the Morning Tide”. Penlee Gallery & Museum
Exhibitions: Royal Academy (7); Royal Cambrian Academy (24); Suffolk Street; New Watercolour Society.
References: Bednar (3rd edition). Brook-Hart. Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall col pl. Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British ArtistsPublic Catalogue Foundation (PCF) Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly: Oil Paintings in Public Ownership. Wood (1995) Victorian Painters