James Dafforne

James Dafforne (29 April 1804 – 5 June 1880) was a British journalist, known for his art criticism in The Art Journal.

Life He was for 35 years a contributor to The Art Journal, joining the staff in 1845, and writing for it till his death. He died on 5 June 1880 at the house of his son-in-law, the Rev. C. E. Casher, Upper Tooting.

Works Dafforne's works were mostly compilations from the Journal: Pictures of Daniel Maclise, R.A.; also the Pictures of William Mulready, of Leslie and Maclise, of Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., Sir Edwin Landseer, and others. He compiled the Pictorial Table-book. In 1878 he published a book on the Albert Memorial. In 1879 his final book appeared, The Life and Works of Edward Matthew Ward, R.A. He translated Arts of the Middle Ages, by De la Croix. 2 February 1855 Edward Matthew Ward 3 March 1855 Francis Danby 4 April 1855 Frederick Goodall 5 May 1855 William Collins 6 July 1855 John Flaxman 7 August 1855 Frederick Richard Pickersgill 8 September 1855 William Hilton 9 October 1855 Charles Lock Eastlake 10 November 1855 Thomas Webster 11 January 1856 Augustus Wall Callcott 12 February 1856 James Clarke Hook 13 March, April 1856 Charles Robert Leslie 14 May 1856 Thomas Creswick 15 June 1856 Benjamin Robert Haydon 16 July 1856 James Baker Pyne 17 August 1856 William Powell Frith 18 September 1856 James Duffield Harding 19 October 1856 J. M. W. Turner 20 November 1856 Frank Stone 21 January 1857 William Edward Frost 22 February 1857 Alexander Johnston 23 April 1857 Alfred Elmore 24 May 1857 Clarkson Stanfield 25 June 1857 John Callcott Horsley 26 July 1857 George Cattermole 27 August 1857 John Gilbert 28 September 1857 John Gibson 29 October 1857 George Lance 30 November 1857 Samuel Prout 31 January 1858 William Linton 32 February 1858 John Frederick Lewis 33 March 1858 George Harvey 34 April 1858 Frederick William Hulme 35 May 1858 Richard Parkes Bonington 36 July 1858 David Roberts 37 August 1858 William Etty 38 September 1858 Henry Le Jeune 39 October 1858 David Wilkie 40 November 1858 Frederick Tayler 41 January 1859 Louis Haghe 42 February 1859 Paul Falconer Poole 43 March 1859 William Frederick Witherington 44 April 1859 John Linnell 45 July 1859 Richard Redgrave 46 September 1859 Henry Jutsum 47 November 1859 Thomas Lawrence 48 February 1860 David Cox 49 April 1860 William Charles Thomas Dobson 50 August 1860 Richard Ansdell 51 October 1860 William Dyce 52 December 1860 Joshua Reynolds 53 January 1861 Jacob Thompson 54 March 1861 George Edwards Hering 55 May 1861 Thomas Sidney Cooper 56 September 1861 Henry Warren 57 November 1861 Henry Fusili 58 January 1862 Alfred Edward Chalon 59 March 1862 Abraham Solomon 60 April 1862 John Cross 61 June 1862 James Ward 62 July 1862 John Absolon 63 February 1863 Joseph Clark 64 March 1863 Abraham Cooper 65 May 1863 William Henry Knight 66 June 1863 Edward Armitage 67 July 1863 Benjamin West 68 January 1864 Gilbert Stuart Newton 69 February 1864 Louis William Desanges 70 March 1864 William Mulready 71 April 1864 Penry Williams 72 May 1864 Charles Baxter 73 July 1864 Eyre Crowe 74 August 1864 William James Grant 75 September 1864 Emily Mary Osborn 76 October 1864 William John Müller 77 December 1864 Henrietta Ward 78 January 1865 Joseph Noel Paton 79 February 1865 Marcus Stone 80 March 1865 John Adam Houston 81 April 1865 Henry Tidey 82 May 1865 William Douglas 83 June 1865 William Cave Thomas 84 November 1865 John P. Burr 85 June 1869 Charles West Cope 86 July 1869 John Pettie 87 August 1869 Edward William Cooke 88 October 1869 David Octavius Hill 89 December 1869 William Gale 90 January 1870 Philip Hermogenes Calderon 91 March 1870 Erskine Nicol 92 June 1870 |George Vicat Cole 93 August 1870 William Quiller Orchardson 94 October 1870 Alexander Hohenlohe Burr 95 December 1870 Henry Stacy Marks 96 January 1871 (+February) Thomas Faed 97 February 1871 Benjamin Williams Leader 98 1871 James Archer 99 April 1871 Myles Birket Foster 100 July 1871 Robert Alexander Hillingford 101 August 1871 John Faed 102 September 1871 Robert Thorburn Ross 103 January 1872 Thomas Francis Dicksee 104 April 1872 George Elgar Hicks 105 June 1872 Philip Richard Morris 106 July 1872 Thomas Brooks 107 August 1872 James Thomas Linnell

From 1873 Dafforne continued to write British Artists essays: