{"title":"Tringham, Joseph Holland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Holland Tringham RBA (1861-1908)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Victorian artist and illustrator. He received royal patronage, exhibited at the Royal Academy, and now has a pub named after him in Streatham, SW London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis early life was spent in the Royal Navy, where he would enjoy himself sketching caricatures of his colleagues. When his boss saw a caricature of himself, Tringham duly got the sack. However, in time he became a really well-known illustrator, with his work appearing in several periodicals such as the London Illustrated News.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs his fame spread, he joined fashionable society and frequently had works exhibited at the Royal Academy. He was also commissioned to paint the portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on at least two occasions, and received letters signed personally by the Queen. In 1905-1906 he accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their tour of India.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe moved to Streatham in SW London in 1891, and is known at three addresses there, the last being 19 Greyhound Lane. He married Miss Beatrice Hall in 1886, but the marriage was dissolved in 1902, not long after the death of his mother. These events were accompanied by the development of photographic reproduction, which meant there was far less need for line illustrations in magazines, so his commissions started to dry up. He turned to alcohol, and the death of his former wife in February 1908 seems to have tipped him over the edge. To try to recover, he visited Douglas in the Isle of Man in 1908, but was arrested by a policeman who saw him behaving in a strange manner. The same night he was certified as insane and taken to the local lunatic asylum, where he died on 26 March 1908, aged 45.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis illustrations are plentiful in magazines of the time, most of them showing views around Greater London. He was also a prolific painter: one Streatham collector in Victorian times is known to have possessed no fewer than 150 of his paintings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough these rarely come onto the market, eleven of his watercolours appeared at auction in Folkestone in 2008, and are now in a private collection. Rather than showing London views, two of them show Lincoln Cathedral, while another two show Lincoln town centre. The others are scenes of the countryside, mostly featuring trees. In his lifetime he was said to be the finest tree painter in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Wetherspoons tavern at 107 Streatham High Road, SW16, was named the Holland Tringham, after Streatham's most famous artist. On its walls are reproduced six illustrations of old Streatham by Tringham.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tringham-holland-1861-1908-automobile-club-show-1899","title":"Tringham, Holland (1861-1908) - Automobile Club Show 1899","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis image is the cover illustration by Joseph Holland Tringham for the Automobile Club Show catalogue for 1899.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 1 hi-res image, in jpeg format, that is 600dpi and 3588 pixels wide by 4854 pixels tall. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca title=\"Joseph Holland Tringham\" href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/tringham-joseph-holland\"\u003eJoseph Holland Tringham\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52689910890826,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Tringham_Holland_1861-1908_-AutomobileClubShow1899_main.jpg?v=1756745054"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Tringham_Holland_1861-1908_-_Automobile_Club_Show_1899-8465960.jpg?v=1768959252","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/tringham-joseph-holland.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}