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 James Dickson Innes (27 February 1887 – 22 August 1914) was a British painter, mainly of mountain landscapes but occasionally of figure subjects. He worked in both oils and water-colours.
Innes was born in Llanelli, in south Wales. His father was John Innes, a Scotsman who was an historian and had an interest in a local brass and copper works; his mother was of Catalan descent. He had two brothers, Alfred and Jack.
He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and afterwards at the Carmarthen School of Art (1904-5), from where he won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art* in London (1905-8). From 1907 he exhibited at the New English Art Club*, and in 1911 became a member of the Camden Town Group*.
In 1911 and 1912 he spent some time painting with Augustus John around Arenig Fawr in the Arenig valley in north Wales, but much of his work was done overseas, mainly in France (1908-1913), notably at Collioure, but also in Spain (1913) and Morocco (1913), foreign travel having been prescribed after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Eventually, at the age of twenty-seven, he died of the disease at a nursing home in Swanley, Kent.
• The Seine at Caudebec (1908)
• Thunder in the Mountains (1910)
• "The Waterfall" (1910) (Tate Gallery, London)
• The Cathedral at Elne (1911) (National Museum Cardiff)
• Tryweryn Valley (1911) (Parc Howard Museum, Llanelli)
• "Bala Lake" (1911)
• "Ranunculus" (1912) (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
• Arenig, North Wales (1913) (Tate Gallery, London)
• Inkwell and Pens (Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth)
• In 2011 Innes and Augustus John's fascination with painting Arenig Fawr and the Arenig valley was the subject of a BBC documentary titled The Mountain That Had to Be Painted.
Reference:
Baron, Wendy and Sickert, Walter. Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, p. 81, Yale University Press, 2006.
Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dickson_Innes
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