Charles Edward Dixon

Charles Dixon was born in 1872 at Goring-on-Thames. His father was the well-known genre and history painter Alfred Dixon, and Charles Dixon is best known now for his paintings of the rivers of London and the historical naval scenes he created, ranging from Americas Cup yacht races of the 1930s back to images of the Navy from the 15th century. He worked as an illustrator for the Illustrated London News, the Sphere and the Graphic, and he exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy, with over 50 of his works shown from 1880 to 1920. He became a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1900 and retired to Sussex, where he died in 1934. Examples of his work are held in many of the most prestigious national naval museums, including the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and the Library of New South Wales, Sydney.