Joseph Walter [SEP] date of death
Joseph Walter
Joseph Walter (1783–1856) was an English marine painter in oils and watercolour, working at Bristol and Portishead. He gained notice for his portrayals of Brunel's steamships "Great Western" and "Great Britain".
Life.
Walter was born in Bristol and died there, but was living in Portishead at the time that he exhibited his first known work, "View from Portishead towards Wales" (1832). This was at the Bristol Institution in 1832, in the first exhibition of
perhaps in navigation for a career in the Navy. There he certainly came to know well Walter Harte, and a year or so later was thanked by him, for help with what Harte called his 'Pamphlet', by date likely to have been Harte's "Essay on Reason". The Essay was written after the sudden and unexpected death of John Knight in October 1733 and contains an elegy to him. Ann Knight subsequently appointed Walter Harte Rector of Gossfield's St. Catherine's church. Shortly after this, Joseph used