April 17, 2024
PAUL BRADDON (1864-1937) - "Le Havre - Busy Street Scene" 1890
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Paul Braddon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Crees. He was born in Birmingham on the 10th July 1864. In his early years he created architectural drawings of continental cathedrals and churches. Later he abandoned this style in favour of the watercolours for which he is best known. He made pencil sketches of buildings and scenes, carefully annotated, from which he produced the eventual watercolours. His output was prolific, as it needed to be in order for him to earn a living. For several years he painted exclusively for a London firm which sold many of his pictures in the United States. He died aged 74 on 12 July 1938 in Croydon. Exhibitions and Collections. Paul Braddon's work can be found in a number of Museums and art galleries worldwide including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury Museum, Edinburgh Museum and Art Gallery, Inverclyde Museum, Bronte Museum, and Blackburn Grammar School. Charles Dickens. It is unclear, at first, what the relationship between Paul Braddon and Charles Dickens is. But their respective birth and death dates hint at this. Dickens lived from 1812 to 1870, while Braddon was born in 1864 and died in 1938. So Braddon was only five or six when the author passed away in one of the houses (Gad’s Hill, Rochester) depicted in one of his the watercolours. In fact, Braddon spent his early artistic
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