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Charles Edward Dixon Biography
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Charles Dixon was born at Goring on Thames on 8th December 1872, the son of the genre and history painter, Alfred Dixon. Best known for his London river scenes, he also painted a vast array of other subjects, from historical naval scenes dating back to the fifteenth century to America’s Cup yacht races of the 1930’s. He also worked as an illustrator for the “Illustrated London News”, the “Sphere” and the “Graphic”. His favourite medium was watercolour, but a small number of oils are also known. Dixon exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy, with 52 works recorded from 1880-1920, as well as exhibits at the New Watercolour Society. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He also produced all the colour plates for a book entitled “Britannia’s Bulwarks”. After spending many years in London, Dixon retired to Itchenor in Sussex, where he died on 12th September, 1934. Examples of his work may be seen at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, and the Library of New South Wales in Sydney.
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