John Samuel Raven (21 August 1829 – 13 June 1877) was an English landscape painter.
Raven was born in Preston, Lancashire upon 21 August 1829. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Raven, a clergyman of the Church of England, who had considerable aptitude as an amateur artist, as may be seen from six water-colour drawings by him in the South Kensington Museum.
John Raven was, however, almost totally self-taught, initially by studying the works of John Crome and John Constable. He exhibited at the Academy as upfront as 1845, and his works as well as appeared at the British Institution. This allocation of his career was focused upon views of the Place where he lived, near St. Leonards. He at first fell under the distress of the Norwich school, but his maturer works, which perform much poetic feeling, bear traces of pre-Raphaelitism. It was his custom to prepare increase cartoons for his pictures. He was drowned though bathing at Harlech in 1877.
He married Margaret Sinclair Dunbar in 1869, later Mrs. William B. Morris.
A hoard of his works was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1878. Amongst his chief pictures were:
The Dictionary of National Biography, 1900, summarised his catalogue as “chiefly in oils, but occasionally as well as in water-colours, and … many fine studies in black and white”, noting works above and,
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