John Webber

1752–1793 · Kingdom of Great Britain

John Webber (6 October 1751 – 29 May 1793) was an English artist who accompanied Captain Cook on his third Pacific expedition. He is best known for his images of Australasia, Hawaii and Alaska. Wikipedia

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Works

“Poedooa, the Daughter of Oree”, 1777 — Royal Museums Greenwich
“The Harbour of Pulo Condere”, 1786 — Yale Center for British Art
“View of Santa Cruz, Tenerife”, 1776 — Yale Center for British Art
“View in Macao, Including the Residence of Camoens, When He Wrote his Lusiad”, 1788 — Yale Center for British Art
“View in Macao”, 1788 — Yale Center for British Art
“View in the Island of Pulo Condore”, 1792 — Yale Center for British Art
“The Fan Palm of Cracatoa”, 1788 — Yale Center for British Art
“A View in Annamooka”, 1790 — Yale Center for British Art
“Village Scene”, 1790 — Yale Center for British Art
“Goodrich Castle on the Wye, Hertfordshire”, 1788 — Yale Center for British Art
“View of Cracatoa (sic), China Seas” — Yale Center for British Art
“Mont Blanc, Glacier des Bossons, Chamonix”, 1788 — Government Art Collection
“A View of Otaheipeha Bay in the Island of Otahaite”, 1791 — Royal Academy of Arts
“Burial Ground in the South Sea”, 1777 — Yale Center for British Art
“Dinas Bran Castle near Llangollen” — National Library of Wales
“Oil painting of James Cook”, 1776 — National Portrait Gallery
“Portrait of Captain James Cook”, 1780 — Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
“Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound”, 1788 — Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
“Portrait of Poedua, daughter of Orio”, 1784 — National Gallery of Australia
“A Native of Otaheite”, 1777 — Fitzwilliam Museum
“'A Party from His Majesty’s ships Resolution & Discovery Shooting sea-horses, Latitude 71 North, 1778'”, 1784 — Royal Museums Greenwich
“Portrait of Captain James King, commander of Discovery during Cook's third voyage (1782)”, 1782 — National Library of Australia
“The Abbey Mill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire”, 1792 — Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
“Pliny's Villa, belonging to the Marquis Canarizi near Como”, 1787 — Yale Center for British Art
“View on the Lake, Como”, 1787 — Yale Center for British Art
“Landscape in Derbyshire”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“A Man of the Sandwich Islands”, 1784 — Yale Center for British Art
“Borgo da Vico, Como (Borgo da Vico with the Villa Olmo)”, 1775 — Yale Center for British Art
“A Toopapaoo of a Chief, with a Priest Making his Offering to the Morai, in Huoheine”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“A Toopapapoo of a Chief, with a Priest Making his Offering to the Morai, in Huoheine”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“The Narta or Sledge for Burdens in Kamtschatka”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“The Balagans or Summer Habitations, with the Method of Drying Fish, at St. Peter and Paul, Kamtschatka”, 1792 — Yale Center for British Art
“Pont-y-Pair on the River Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, Denbigh”, 1791 — Yale Center for British Art
“Rocks in Derbyshire”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“Hob Thursts Houses, Monsoldale, Derbyshire”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“View from Renard's Hole, Dovedale, Derbyshire”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“Thurshouse Tor from the river Manifold, Derbyshire” — Yale Center for British Art
“View in Oheitepeha Bay, Otaheite”, 1791 — Yale Center for British Art
“Waheiadooa, Chief of Oheitepha, Lying in State”, 1789 — Yale Center for British Art
“A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite”, 1792 — Yale Center for British Art