This is Hannah’s cover for Hampshire: Discovering the 19th Century World of Portsmouth Artist R.H.C. Ubsdell: Volume 1 Portsmouth & South Hampshire Now we just have to get the cover right for Volume 2 which covers Southampton & North Hampshire !
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A distant cousin found one of Ubsdell’s glass negatives. Scanning it in Photoshop in greyscale and reversing the image this amazing picture emerged. Amazing because it is a photo of Ubsdell himself returned from a hunting party on Lady Fetherstonhaugh’s Uppark Estate (now N.T.) and as a mark of gratitute he painted his image on […]
I have made some of Ubsdell’s most beautiful images into Greetings Cards. The images in the Royal Collection that can be seen at http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/search?search=ubsdell and the stories behind them form one set, and four images from the Portsmouth City Museums collection and the stories behind them, form another.
…..and the back of the Greetings Card tells the story of the person or scene in Ubsdell painting and what happened next. This is Funtley Hill today with the M27 obscuring the view of the Church of St. Francis.
This is a detail from miniature painter Ubsdell’s biographical picture ‘Governor’s Green’ that sustained water damage whilst in store in a warehouse in WW2. His painting is a view from the upstairs room of the pub in which he was born, of himself, wife and one of sons in the upstairs bedrooms of his house, […]
Individually Ubsdell’s paintings are interesting but when his entire known output is brought together and related to the geography they show, the stories behind the people of the age he painted, the history of the age, and the story of his own decline and fall, the result is stunning. Ubsdell and Dickens were born in Portsmouth […]
Saturday 26th May, Portsmouth City Museum. The Gx3 Grandchildren of RHC Ubsdell gather for the Official Opening of the exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the Portsmouth artist’s birth. Tessa Nilsson turns to congratulate John Stedman, Archivist and Exhibition organiser. Centre Chris Brindle, author of “Hampshire” , and further right David Quinton, and Katy […]
Glad to see that the current Exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum has lifted 19th Century pictorial chronicler of Hampshire, R.H.C. Ubsdell,back into his rightful place amongst other great people born in Portsmouth; along with Charles Dickens, I.K.Brunel, Peter Sellers and James Callaghan, see http://www.welcometoportsmouth.co.uk/portsmouth%20hall%20of%20fame%207.html Perhaps we can get a blue plaque on 1 Green Row […]
Queen Victoria visited Portsmouth on 21st March 1842. Ubsdell produced the celebratory scroll that was presented, and went to London to paint miniatures of the members of Queen Victoria’s court, so that their images could be included in his painting to record the event. The painting was destroyed by German bombing of Portsmouth in WW2 […]
ISBNs now applied for and Publication Dates Set:- August 1st for Volume 1 and September 1st for Volume 2. Descriptions of Contents written, with each volume allocated an ISBN, the work can begin of posting the existence of these books, and ascertaining the level of support and interest. Tangible support is of course vital for […]