Joseph Murray Ince (1806–1859) was a British painter known for his landscapes, drawings, and watercolours of local scenes in Wales and paintings of Cambridge and Oxford colleges. Ince, Joseph Murray (1806–1859), Dictionary of National Biography

Life

Joseph Murray Ince was born in London in April 1806Joseph Murray Ince
History of Powys, accessed January 2010 and he spent his childhood in

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. Ince was certain of his future profession and as a career choice took immediately to painting. From 1823 to 1826 he was a pupil under the painter David Cox. In 1826 he moved to London and exhibited at the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ...

. Later his work was chosen for exhibition at the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom and other galleries. Kings College Cambridge Ince

In 1832 he made many architectural drawings and views of the colleges in Oxford and

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. Ince was a drawing master at

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in the 1830sJ.M.Ince
Hereford Museum, accessed January 2010 living at 12 King's Parade.
Chilcotts auctioneers accessed 26 November 2019 Ince married in 1834 but lost his wife in childbirth. About 1835 he returned to Presteigne, where he spent the majority of his time, but he had to keep contact with his customers as well in London. He had inherited some property from his parents which supplemented the good income that he made from his painting. He painted many maritime and rural scenes including harvesting and woodcutting showing contemporary people and their animals. Ince died on 24 September 1859, and was buried in w:Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green cemetery, London. Ince was a good painter of landscapes in watercolour. There are examples of his drawings at the South Kensington Museum, and in the print room at the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

. He has a blue plaque on his former house in Powys and a monument was erected to his memory at Presteigne.

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People of Presteigne: Joseph Murray Ince (1806–1859)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ince, Joseph Murr 1806 births 1859 deaths People from Presteigne 19th-century Welsh painters People educated at John Beddoes School Welsh male painters 19th-century Welsh male artists