Calvary by John Martin Postcard

This is a reproduction of “Calvary”of about 1835 by John Martin. He was about forty-six years old when he created this work. The scene shows the Biblical description of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the hill of Calvary. The Artist was born in Northumberland and became a student of Bonifacio Musso. They moved to London when Martin was seventeen and he married two years later. He supported himself giving drawing lessons and selling watercolors and, on his second attempt, had an oil on canvas hung in the Royal Academy when he twenty-two. Five years later he won public acclaim for his Joshua and two years later a large sale enabled him to buy a home and rid himself of debt. He went on to win wider public acclaim and to become a favourite of aristocrats and royalty. He died a wealthy man in 1874. This painting is an oil on canvas and measures 15 by 23.66 inches. It is in the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.