John Wilson Ewbank

John W. Ewbank (4 May 1799 – 28 November 1847), was an English-born landscape and marine painter largely operational from Scotland.

Life

Ewbank was born at Darlington on 4 May 1799, the son of Michael Ewbank, an innkeeper. He was adopted as a child by a wealthy uncle who lived at Wycliffe, on the banks of the River Tees, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Intended for the Roman Catholic priesthood, he was sent to Ushaw College, from which he absconded.

He died of typhus fever in the infirmary at Sunderland, 28 November 1847.

Later works were painted for cash.

His works are held in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, the Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections.