Artist
Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Joseph Allen was a Cheshire vicar who slipped watercolours into his sermon notes. His spare time went to drawing teenaged girls with a quiet intensity—faces half turned, collarbones just beginning to shadow the neck. He made Miss Mary Cunliffe, aged 15 years, look back over her shoulder as if she’d heard a footstep in the churchyard. Hunt down the watercolour in Manchester Art Gallery; it’s the best place to see how a quiet pastor could make a sideways glance feel like a story half-told.
Works by Joseph Allen
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.