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14 Jun 2008 - 06 Sep 2009

John Wilson Carmichael was born in Newcastle in 1799 and was apprenticed to a ship builder before becoming a full time artist. He is best known for his marine paintings, and the exhibition features a number of scenes from the North East including views of the River Tyne and a painting of Newcastle’s Central Station, painted in 1849-50.

Some of Carmichael’s early watercolours, including the painting of Central Station, were produced in collaboration with the Newcastle architect John Dobson – Dobson completed the architectural drawing and Carmichael then added the colour and details of landscapes and figures.

Henry Perlee Parker painted from a studio on Pilgrim Street in the early 1800s and often painted working people and characters from the North East. Included in the exhibition are portraits of a fisherman in Cullercoats and a milk boy, alongside some named characters, for example in the painting Rev H. Cotes Sleeping, (1830).

Henry Perlee Parker's portraits of working people and characters from the North East coast and Newcastle are contrasted with land and seascapes by John Wilson Carmichael.