John Maggs
John Charles Maggs (1819-1896) was a painter best known for his
coaching scenes.
Brighton-London MailHe was born in Bath, England in 1819, his father
being a furniture japanner there. He painted a series of famous
coaching inns, and also a series of 80 metropolitan inns, in which
he exploited the picturesque and historical aspect of his subject,
to which his talent was best suited. Other subjects he painted include
Newmarket Races, Robbing the Mails, The News of Waterloo, The Market
Place at Bath. The period he illustrated spans about two centuries;
from the days before Hogarth, to the end of the reign of William
IV. His work enjoyed great popularity at a time when there was much
interest in such vivid reconstruction of the 'romantic past'.
John Maggs' father, James, is recorded as an artist at Bath 1837-1841
and his uncle as a portrait painter 1846-1848. His daughter also
assisted at his studio, known as the Bath Art Studio. Maggs lived
in Bath his whole life, and died there on November 3, 1896, aged
77.
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