DUKES, Charles

1803 - 1865

Charles Dukes was born in London on 31 August 1803, but not baptised at St Matthew Bethnal Green, London until 29 April 1835, son of Thomas Dukes (died Stepney 24 May 1835) and his wife [H]Ester née Mann (died 1862), who married at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 30 August 1802. In 1841, Charles was living at 1 Turner Street, Commercial Road, Stepney with his c.55-year-old widowed mother Ester and in 1851, a 45[sic] year-old unmarried artist, living at Camden Street, St Pancras, London, the home of 38-year-old picture dealer, William Edward Bates and his family. A landscape and rustic genre painter working in London, his subjects are cottage or country scenes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy 1834-1864 also showing at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists, from Commercial Chambers, Mincing Lane, London in 1829 and from various London addresses until his death. He also exhibited at the Suffolk Fine Arts Association at Ipswich in 1850, from 1 Eversholt Street, Hampstead Road, Hampstead, London when he had on show two oils, 'The Gipsy Mother' and 'The Golden Age'. Charles Dukes died at Chiswick, Middlesex on 9 September 1865. He painted a self-portrait, oil on canvas 76cm x 63.5cm which has an old label on verso 'Charles Dukes, Artist, Painted by himself'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 1 Great Turner Street, Mile End
1834 336 The Exhibition of Fantoccini
1835 215 Portrait of a Lady
from 1 Leadenhall Street
1837 498 Prepared for the Masquerade
1838 402 Interior of an Ale House
1840 218 Portrait of a Lady
1841 1173 The Astrologer
from 33 Great St. Helen's
1842 101 Portrait of a Gentleman
1843 338 The Falcon
         444 A Study
1844 252 The Pulse
         294 Early Friendship
1845 524 Winning the Gloves
1846 666 The Rape of the Lock
         667 Dorothea
1847 78 The Gloves
         211 Maria
         319 The Brook
from 1 Eversholt Square, Hampstead Road
1848 149 Country Courtship
         905 A Coast Scene
1849 312 Gipsy and Child
from 47 Camden Street, Camden Town
1850 678 The Arcadian Mother
1851 56 Girl in a Spring
         486 A Welsh Peasant Girl
1852 445 A Coast Scene
1853 486 The Rest
from 4 Verulam Terrace, The Grove, Hammersmith
1854 82 The Kiss
1855 643 Lavinia
from Belle Terre Villa, Starch Green, Hammersmith
1856 350 A Weary Journey
1857 150 'Ye banks and braes'
1859 947 Morning
1860 587 Cottage Interior
         613 'I'm going a milking, Sir, she said'
from 1 Chiswick Square, Chiswick
1862 563 The Cottage Door
1864 578 A Peep into the Future

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Works by This Artist