The Master of the Welsh Tides James Harris Senior (1810 – 1887) stands as a profound figure in the annals of Victorian maritime art, a painter whose brush captured not merely the surface of the ocean, but its very soul. Born in the coastal atmosphere of Llanelly, Glamorgan, around 1810, Harris was a child of the sea. His early life was deeply intertwined with the maritime traditions of Wales; with a father involved in the rugged industry of shipbuilding, the sounds of hammers on hulls and the sight of masts against the horizon were his first teachers. This intimate connection to seafaring li…
A chart of James Harris Senior's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
