James Sant CVO,RA (1820-1916) was a British painter specializing in portraits, and a member of theRoyal Academy. Sant was born in Croydon and taught byJohn VarleyandAugustus Wall Callcott. He lived to the age of 96 and produced an astonishing number of canvases for exhibition at the Academy, some 250 of them, from 1840 through 1904. He was elected to the RA in 1870, and in 1872 Sant was appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary(official portraitist) toQueen Victoriaand the royal family. Sant resigned from the RA in 1914 to “make room for younger men.” His work can be found at theTate Gallery. His brother George Sant (1821 - 1877) was a landscape painter. His sister Sarah Sherwood Clarke (who married Frederick Clarke, Superintendent and later Secretary of the LWS Railway) was an artist of great talent, but all that remains of her work is a collection of 48 different views of Scotland from 1854; these were exhibited for the first time at the “Watercolours & Works on Paper Fair” in London in February 2010.

James Sant CVO,RA (1820-1916) was a British painter specializing in portraits, and a member of theRoyal Academy.

Sant was born in Croydon and taught byJohn VarleyandAugustus Wall Callcott. He lived to the age of 96 and produced an astonishing number of canvases for exhibition at the Academy, some 250 of them, from 1840 through 1904. He was elected to the RA in 1870, and in 1872

Sant was appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary(official portraitist) toQueen Victoriaand the royal family. Sant resigned from the RA in 1914 to “make room for younger men.” His work can be found at theTate Gallery.

His brother George Sant (1821 - 1877) was a landscape painter. His sister Sarah Sherwood Clarke (who married Frederick Clarke, Superintendent and later Secretary of the LWS Railway) was an artist of great talent, but all that remains of her work is a collection of 48 different views of Scotland from 1854; these were exhibited for the first time at the “Watercolours & Works on Paper Fair” in London in February 2010.

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