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 in the same year. Dickens put the 19th Century in words, Ubsdell Painted it. This is the Contents Page of ‘Portsmouth & South Hampshire’ , ‘Southampton & North Hampshire’ is in preparation.