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John Charles Maggs (1819-1896) was a painter best
known for his coaching scenes.

He was born in Bath, England in 1819, his father
being a furniture japanner there. He painted a
series of famous coaching inns, and also a series
of 80 metropolitan inns, in which he exploited the
picturesque and historical aspect of his subject,
to which his talent was best suited. Other
subjects he painted include Newmarket Races,
Robbing the Mails, The News of Waterloo, The
Market Place at Bath. The period he illustrated
spans about two centuries; from the days prior to
Hogarth, to the end of the reign of William IV.
His work enjoyed great popularity at a time when
there was much interest in such vivid
reconstruction of the 'romantic past'.

John Maggs' father, James, is recorded as an
artist at Bath 1837-1841 and his uncle as a
portrait painter 1846-1848. His daughter also
assisted at his studio, known as the Bath Art
Studio. Maggs lived in Bath his whole life, and
died there on November 3, 1896, aged 77.


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