Template:Art and artists/John Le Capelain

Sadly John Le Capelain died at the age of 36, but the pictures he left behind him provide a priceless image of the island of his father's birth in the first half of the 18th century. (Contrary to popular belief, the artist was not born in Jersey, but in London.) One can only wonder what he would have achieved had he lived longer, but having obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria following her visit to the island two years before his death in 1848, it seems highly likely that he would have gone on to enjoy the admiration of art lovers far beyond Jersey's shores.