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Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John Wilson Carmichael was the son of a ship's carpenter and went to sea at a young age..
James Wilson Carmichael
English marine painter
James Wilson Carmichael (9 June – 2 May ), also known as John Wilson Carmichael, was a British maritime and landscape artist who painted in oil and watercolours.
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and later in London, he was a household name in his lifetime, and his work remains some of the most desirable in the marine art market. He was described by art historian Jeremy Maas as "a sea painter of great, though sometimes uneven, natural talent".[3]
Life
Carmichael was born in the Ouseburn area[4] of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, on 9 June , the first son of Mary (née Johnson) and William Carmichael, a shipwright.[6] Only vague details of his early life are known, but according to Mackenzie's History of Newcastle (), he went to sea at a young age, and spent three years on a transport sailing between ports in Spain and Portugal.[7] After returning home, he was apprenticed in his fath
