page_title: Manchester School of Painters
section_title: Frederick W Jackson
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester School of Painters / Facts about the principal members / Frederick W Jackson
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of a man sat at a hand loom weaving
context_page_description: The Manchester School of Painters was formed by a number of disgruntled young vanguard painters in the 1870s. They were deeply influenced by the artist Joseph Knight, who was a successful painter, etcher and photographer. He was the founder member of the Manchester School of Painters. Knight painted how he desired and refused to conform to traditional Art School rules and this appealed to his young admirers. Twice weekly they would all meet up at Knight’s studio in York Place behind the Union Chapel in Oxford Road, Manchester to discuss new ways to develop their techniques.
  The group were very discontented with the old school of teaching and working. They decided they would work in a different way, experimenting with different tones and colours especially after a number of them spent four months working in the open air in Pont-Aven, Brittany. The place was vibrant and full to the brim with an eminent and cosmopolitan crowd of painters known as the Pont-Aven School and the group became influenced by all their different ways of working.
context_section_description: Frederick W Jackson (1859–1918) was born at Middleton Junction, Oldham in 1859. He was the son of an art dealer and photographer. He had two brothers, Vincent Jackson, a musician trained at Leipzig Conservatoire and Charles Arthur Jackson, who was also an art dealer in Police Street, Manchester. He attended evening classes at the Oldham Lyceum where John Houghton Hague was one of the teachers. When the school was demolished he transferred to the Manchester School of Art. He travelled at length, always painting in the open air. He worked in Russia, where it was several degrees below zero, North Africa and various parts of Europe. A former student of his, Laura Knight, described Jackson painting outside in the following way: "He would paint out of doors in any weather. Under the mittens he wore his hands were swollen, stiff and chapped, as were the edges of his ears and the wings of his nostrils." 
  He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1880, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and Yorkshire Union of Artists. He was a member of the Arts Club in 1879, the Limners Club in 1880 and the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1881. He was a founder member of the Staithes group and Art Club. He was also a founder member of the New English Art Club in 1886 and later in 1894 he was elected to the R.B.A.
  In Paris he enrolled as a student at the Académie Julian under the tutors, Lefebure and Boulanger and in 1884 and 1885 he was accepted at the Salon (Paris). Here he would meet up with his friends, William and Edward Stott, Henry Herbert La Thangue and James Charles, who were also studying in Paris.
  
  Jackson was a good friend of the Middleton born architect, Edgar Wood and through his influence he became involved in the Arts and Crafts Movement and mural painting. In 1892 Jackson designed a murial entitled Seedtime and Harvest for the Old Road Unitarian Chapel, 
   
  Middleton (demolished 1965). Some of his other mural commissions were:
  1894 a frieze at Briarcourt House, Lindley for H. H. Sykes (Wood's brother-in-law)
  Mural for the living room of Wood's own house, Redcroft, Rochdale Road, Middleton (built in 1891)
  A frieze of The Holy Grail for Birkley Lodge, Huddersfield (built in 1901)
  As an illustrator he produced a number of drawings for the well known dialect writer Ben Brierley's "Ab-o'th-Yate Sketches." One of his sketches "The Hand Loom Weaver" appears as the Frontispiece for Vol. III.
  He finally settled in Hinderwell and was married in 1907. He died in December 1918, and a large Memorial Exhibition was held at the Manchester City Art Gallery. A letter of appreciation of his life and work, by Sir George Clausen was read out at the opening ceremony.
caption: Hand Loom Weaver, Manchester Art Gallery
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