# James Dafforne

James Dafforne (29 April 1804 – 5 June 1880) was a British journalist, known for his art criticism in The Art Journal.

## Life

He was for 35 years a contributor to The Art Journal, joining the staff in 1845, and writing for it till his death. He died on 5 June 1880 at the house of his son-in-law, the Rev. C. E. Casher, Upper Tooting.

## Works

Dafforne's works were mostly compilations from the Journal: Pictures of Daniel Maclise, R.A.; also the Pictures of William Mulready, of Leslie and Maclise, of Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., Sir Edwin Landseer, and others. He compiled the Pictorial Table-book. In 1878 he published a book on the Albert Memorial. In 1879 his final book appeared, The Life and Works of Edward Matthew Ward, R.A. He translated Arts of the Middle Ages, by De la Croix.

## British Artists: Their Style and Character

A long series of illustrated critical essays by Dafforne appeared in The Art Journal under this title.
| Number | Date | Artist |
| 1 | January 1855 | John Constable |
| 2 | February 1855 | Edward Matthew Ward |
| 3 | March 1855 | Francis Danby |
| 4 | April 1855 | Frederick Goodall |
| 5 | May 1855 | William Collins |
| 6 | July 1855 | John Flaxman |
| 7 | August 1855 | Frederick Richard Pickersgill |
| 8 | September 1855 | William Hilton |
| 9 | October 1855 | Charles Lock Eastlake |
| 10 | November 1855 | Thomas Webster |
| 11 | January 1856 | Augustus Wall Callcott |
| 12 | February 1856 | James Clarke Hook |
| 13 | March, April 1856 | Charles Robert Leslie |
| 14 | May 1856 | Thomas Creswick |
| 15 | June 1856 | Benjamin Robert Haydon |
| 16 | July 1856 | James Baker Pyne |
| 17 | August 1856 | William Powell Frith |
| 18 | September 1856 | James Duffield Harding |
| 19 | October 1856 | J. M. W. Turner |
| 20 | November 1856 | Frank Stone |
| 21 | January 1857 | William Edward Frost |
| 22 | February 1857 | Alexander Johnston |
| 23 | April 1857 | Alfred Elmore |
| 24 | May 1857 | Clarkson Stanfield |
| 25 | June 1857 | John Callcott Horsley |
| 26 | July 1857 | George Cattermole |
| 27 | August 1857 | John Gilbert |
| 28 | September 1857 | John Gibson |
| 29 | October 1857 | George Lance |
| 30 | November 1857 | Samuel Prout |
| 31 | January 1858 | William Linton |
| 32 | February 1858 | John Frederick Lewis |
| 33 | March 1858 | George Harvey |
| 34 | April 1858 | Frederick William Hulme |
| 35 | May 1858 | Richard Parkes Bonington |
| 36 | July 1858 | David Roberts |
| 37 | August 1858 | William Etty |
| 38 | September 1858 | Henry Le Jeune |
| 39 | October 1858 | David Wilkie |
| 40 | November 1858 | Frederick Tayler |
| 41 | January 1859 | Louis Haghe |
| 42 | February 1859 | Paul Falconer Poole |
| 43 | March 1859 | William Frederick Witherington |
| 44 | April 1859 | John Linnell |
| 45 | July 1859 | Richard Redgrave |
| 46 | September 1859 | Henry Jutsum |
| 47 | November 1859 | Thomas Lawrence |
| 48 | February 1860 | David Cox |
| 49 | April 1860 | William Charles Thomas Dobson |
| 50 | August 1860 | Richard Ansdell |
| 51 | October 1860 | William Dyce |
| 52 | December 1860 | Joshua Reynolds |
| 53 | January 1861 | Jacob Thompson |
| 54 | March 1861 | George Edwards Hering |
| 55 | May 1861 | Thomas Sidney Cooper |
| 56 | September 1861 | Henry Warren |
| 57 | November 1861 | Henry Fusili |
| 58 | January 1862 | Alfred Edward Chalon |
| 59 | March 1862 | Abraham Solomon |
| 60 | April 1862 | John Cross |
| 61 | June 1862 | James Ward |
| 62 | July 1862 | John Absolon |
| 63 | February 1863 | Joseph Clark |
| 64 | March 1863 | Abraham Cooper |
| 65 | May 1863 | William Henry Knight |
| 66 | June 1863 | Edward Armitage |
| 67 | July 1863 | Benjamin West |
| 68 | January 1864 | Gilbert Stuart Newton |
| 69 | February 1864 | Louis William Desanges |
| 70 | March 1864 | William Mulready |
| 71 | April 1864 | Penry Williams |
| 72 | May 1864 | Charles Baxter |
| 73 | July 1864 | Eyre Crowe |
| 74 | August 1864 | William James Grant |
| 75 | September 1864 | Emily Mary Osborn |
| 76 | October 1864 | William John Müller |
| 77 | December 1864 | Henrietta Ward |
| 78 | January 1865 | Joseph Noel Paton |
| 79 | February 1865 | Marcus Stone |
| 80 | March 1865 | John Adam Houston |
| 81 | April 1865 | Henry Tidey |
| 82 | May 1865 | William Douglas |
| 83 | June 1865 | William Cave Thomas |
| 84 | November 1865 | John P. Burr |
| 85 | June 1869 | Charles West Cope |
| 86 | July 1869 | John Pettie |
| 87 | August 1869 | Edward William Cooke |
| 88 | October 1869 | David Octavius Hill |
| 89 | December 1869 | William Gale |
| 90 | January 1870 | Philip Hermogenes Calderon |
| 91 | March 1870 | Erskine Nicol |
| 92 | June 1870 | George Vicat Cole |
| 93 | August 1870 | William Quiller Orchardson |
| 94 | October 1870 | Alexander Hohenlohe Burr |
| 95 | December 1870 | Henry Stacy Marks |
| 96 | January 1871 (+February) | Thomas Faed |
| 97 | February 1871 | Benjamin Williams Leader |
| 98 | 1871 | James Archer |
| 99 | April 1871 | Myles Birket Foster |
| 100 | July 1871 | Robert Alexander Hillingford |
| 101 | August 1871 | John Faed |
| 102 | September 1871 | Robert Thorburn Ross |
| 103 | January 1872 | Thomas Francis Dicksee |
| 104 | April 1872 | George Elgar Hicks |
| 105 | June 1872 | Philip Richard Morris |
| 106 | July 1872 | Thomas Brooks |
| 107 | August 1872 | James Thomas Linnell |
From 1873 Dafforne continued to write British Artists essays:
| Date | Artist |
| 1873 | George Henry Boughton |
| 1874 | Rudolph Lehmann |
| 1875 | Laurence Alma-Tadema |
| | Frederick Daniel Hardy |
| | George Adolphus Storey |
| | John George Naish |
| 1876 | Frank Holl |
| | John Thomas Peele |
| | Frederick Walker |
| 1877 | Edward John Poynter |
| | Richard Beavis |
| | Edmund John Niemann |
| | Laslett John Pott |
| 1878 | Briton Riviere |
| | Thomas Jones Barker |
| 1879 | Keeley Halswelle |
| | Henry Brittan Willis |
| | Nicholas Chevalier |
| | John Wright Oakes |
| 1880 | Francis William Topham |
| | Hubert Herkomer |
| | John Thomas Hamilton Macallum |
| | John Bagnold Burgess |