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Francis Danby 16/11/1793-9/2/1861 was an Irish painter of the Romantic era.
Born in the south of Ireland, he was one of a set of twins, his father, James, farmed in a small property he owned in near Wexford, but his death, in 1897, caused the family to move to Dublin, while Francis was still a school boy.
In 1929, Danby's wife desreted him, running off with painter Paul Falconer Poole. For a decade he lived on the Lake of Geneva. He later moved to Paris for a short while.
He returned to England in 1840, when his sons, James and Thomas, both artists were growing up.
Both of Danby's sons were landscape painters. The elder, James Farancis Danby (1816-75) exhibited at the Royal Academy.
The younger, Thomas (1817-86) specialized in watercolors.
Some paintings were;
Thw Upas Tree (1870)
Delivery of the Israelites (1825)
Opening of the Sixth Seal (1828) (won 200 Guineas)
The Deluge (1840)
The Golden Age (1827)
Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore (1837)
The Evening Gun (1848)