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Autograph Letter Signed, to William Collard, about a possible sale of Carmichael’s picture now exhibiting at the Royal Academy and suggesting a price. 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Grainger Street, Newcastle, 23 July 1841. Uncommon. James Wilson Carmichael (1800 – 1868), also known as John Carmichael, marine painter. He lived in Newcastle until about 1845, when he moved to London, where he was already known as a skilful marine painter. In 1855, during the Crimean War he was sent to the Baltic to make drawings for the Illustrated London News. He published The Art of Marine Painting in Water-Colours in 1859, and The Art of Marine Painting in Oil-Colours in 1864.