James Scott Maxwell (1845-1922) - Commercial Artist

 British Painter, James Scott Maxwell, or James Maxwell, remains an elusive artistic entity, owing to his nebulous descent and birth details. His works though covered a narrow subject range of warships and British scenery, his works carried the signs of huge brilliance such as in "Villefranche 188," a drawing of a fleet of ships. Most of his 'paintings' were actually little water color or the modest sketches of steamers, subsequent to "Clyde," "Duchess of York," and "Ben Lemmond," all carried out in little 7 by 9 inch frames or in slightly larger moulds.

James' on the subject of entire repertoire seemed concentrated vis--vis the seascapes of Pre WW-I British Seagoing Saga of Steamers and the Ladies of encounter. The works embody a form of art known popularly as British or Continental Watercolors. The type was not far-off off from a obscure 'Photo Realistic' drawing, aimed at factual representation, rather than artistic creativity and mastery. Maxwell's drawings of American Steamships, such as "St. Paul" and "Haverford" are such well along sketches, which are powerful attempts at photographic reproduction.

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James Scott seems to have been prolific from 1875 to the upfront 1900s, as per most of his olden sketches. In tote happening, it seems that a majority of his works could be commissions from steamship companies. The artistic merits of James Scott's works are doubtful, as they display a stiffness of form, found in most "commissioned" watercolor artists who documented the British Empire. His "Duchess of Devonshire" is a every option in narrowing where the opaqueness of the medium adds vis--vis speaking to the virtual inertia of completion, making an truly shapeless portray static.

Though distant than 200 sketches survive James Maxwell, however, there seems to be no variation of the theme, seemingly giving the perspicacity that he painted single-handedly seascapes and ships. Even his geographical take on was limited to the harbor towns of the British Isles, gone Kenningston. Maxwell seems to have just painted ships, rooted to a probable fact he might have lived all his vibrancy in coastal handbag in crime lonely. It is hard to bracket Maxwell without sounding necessary. He could be called a flyer artist in the campaigner mould whose outfit does slightly control to achieve respectability or the individuality of a exact art promoter. James can be fixed a sealed pro of doubt, as his contemporary 'classified ad' artists were no greater than before. Compared to the anonymous British watercolor painters who painted the "Raj" in India or "British Overseas Assets in the Colonies," Maxwell and his peers stand a wee bit shorter.