A river craft on shore at Boulac, 13th March 1855

Dillon, a landscape painter and traveller, was a pupil of James Holland and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He travelled extensively in Egypt where he shared a studio with the Swedish artist Egron Sellif Lundgren. He went to Japan and afterwards exhibited his Japanese work at Agnews in 1877. Boulac is now a suburb of Cairo.

Object Details

ID: PAG9910
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Dillon, Frank
Date made: 1855
People: Dillon, Frank
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 244 mm x 395 mm; Mount: 484 mm x 633 mm