James Astbury Hammersley

James Astbury Hammersley (1818–1867) was an English painter, and a teacher of art and design.

[2] During the 1840s he taught at the Nottingham School of Design, where his pupils included Henry Hunter and Andrew MacCallum.

He took part in the formation of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, being elected its first president, 28 May 1857.

[2] Hammersley died on 11 March 1867 in Manchester, and was buried at St. John's Church, Higher Broughton.

[2] In 1850 Hammersley delivered an address at Nottingham on the Preparations on the Continent for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the Condition of the Continental Schools of Art; it was published.

Mountains and Clouds – A Scene from the Top of Loughrigg, Westmoreland , a large landscape now in the Manchester City Galleries collection, was exhibited at the autumn exhibition of 1850, and was presented by Hammersley to the Royal Manchester Institution . [ 2 ] [ 6 ]