This is a section to show the pictures and artists who have in the past and also today found Canvey Island to be a place of inspiration. We are very lucky to have such a vast number of artists recording how Canvey Island looked many years ago before photography became popular.
The Chalet, Leigh Beck
Drawn by Frank Lansdown
The Vicarage c1927-8
painted by the Vicar of Canvey
Furtherwick Farm c1909
Painted by Peter Paul Hubner
Drawing of Sluice Farm
Drawn by William Henry Caffyn. Dated 1928
The Chapman Lighthouse 1893
Illustration by Charles Joseph Staniland
Henry Jamyn Brooks
Well known Victorian Portrait Artist
Southwick Farm
Painting by Vera Kemp
The Lobster Smack
Oil painting artist unknown c1900
The five thousand
Eularia Clarke (1914-1970)
The Lighthouse
Painted on black velvet
The Labworth Cafe by Gemma Stevens
Fine-line pen sketch drawn June 2009.
Canvey Chronical Cartoons 1933
by local cartoonist and reporter Phil Blanchard
A Miniature Holland
The Graphic (London) Saturday July 29 1893
Painting called 'Canvey Island'
by Margarete Heymann-Marks 1899-1990
Old Canvey
by a local artist
Unknown Essex
Pictures from Donald Maxwell's 1925 book
Hole Haven and the Estuary
Paintings by William Lionel Wyllie
J J Proctor Illustrator
Illustrator for 'The History of Canvey Island' 1902
Tom Merry aka William Mecham
Illustrator for 'The History of Canvey Island' 1902
The Lobster Smack 1909
by the artist Fred Roe
Paintings of the Lobster Smack 1910-1914
by the artist, writer and sailor Charles Pears
Canvey in Art
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