| Title |
Clonney, James G. |
| Date |
1812-1867 |
| Description |
James G. Clonney, born in England in 1812, was a New York genre painter, miniaturist, and lithographer who practiced lithography
in Philadelphia at Childs & Inman 1831-ca. 1833. He drew lithographic plates printed by the firm for the Doughty's "Cabinet
of Natural History and American Rural Sports" (1830-1833). Childs & Inman retained Clonney based on the recommendation of
Inman (Vice-President of the National Academy of Design). In March 1831, he sent the New York lithographer and Academy student
to Philadelphia with a letter of introduction for Childs. Clonney was never listed in Philadelphia city directories, but most
likely resided in the city during the period he worked for the Philadelphia firm.
|
|
Clonney left the lithographic trade by about 1840 (the year of his naturalization) and focused on genre painting in New York.
He exhibited his works at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Apollo Association,
and the American Art Union. By 1850, he was listed in the census as a farmer residing in New Rochelle, New York with his wife
Margaret and several children. He died in Binghamton, New York in 1867.
|
| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Childs & Inman and Doughty, J. & T. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850 |
|
Eldredge, Tales from the Easel (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 104 |
|
Groce & Wallace, 132 |
|
Henry Inman Letters, 1828-1845, American Antiquarian Society |
|
Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
|
Peters, 143 |
|
WWWAA, 670 |
