SwissArtGallery · Documented identity

James Pattison Cockburn

Born : 1779Died : 1847

James Pattison Cockburn combined a career as a British officer with topographical watercolour painting. Trained in drawing by Paul Sandby at Woolwich from 1793 to 1795, he stayed in Quebec in 1822–1823 and again from 1826 to 1832. Military inspections took him as far as Niagara. His views of Quebec and Montreal combine architecture and landscape with scenes of daily life.

Monument to Wolfe and Montcalm, Quebec, dated around 1828–1832 by the National Gallery of Canada, uses watercolour over pen and brown ink. The Ice Cutters, an ink and wash drawing of 1830 held in Quebec, depicts winter labour. His images also circulated as prints: the general view of Niagara Falls published by Ackermann in 1833 is an aquatint by John Edge after Cockburn.

This profile brings together identity references for James Pattison Cockburn and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.

Documented auction references

1auction reference

1auction house

1documented result with a price

Dobiaschofsky

References include catalogue entries and available results; they do not all represent completed sales. Attributed works and special lots are excluded from the priced results.

Works recorded at auction

Photograph : Dobiaschofsky · Enlarge image ↗

Dobiaschofsky · Lot 1099

"Fluellen on the lake of the 4 Cantons".

Bleistift, grau laviert

Catalogue period : 2022-11-03

Published result : 1100 CHF

Fees not specified in the available data

Estimate : CHF 500

View the lot at the auction house ↗

Sources and references

Reference record
LoC · Reference link only; institutional text and images are not reproduced.
Documentary source
Documentary source
Documentary source
Documentary source

SwissArtGallery documentary note based on the cited sources. Titles, media and qualifications are provided in the profile language; the original catalogue wording remains available in each record.
Profile updated : 2026-10-23