Welcome to the research page for the life and work of John Chubb. He was from a merchant family of Bridgwater, importing wine and timber, although he is most known as an artist, capturing the likenesses of the late eighteenth century townsfolk. However, his most enduring legacy are a series of topographical pictures of the town, recording a lost townscape of now long demolished buildings, such as the High Cross. He also left a large corpus of writing, notes and letters, which are now part of the collections of the Blake Museum. Also see the extensive material at the Blake Museum’s website.
by Mary Chubb
by Berta Lawrence
by Tony Woolrich
Chubb’s Illustrations and Writings
John Chubb Sources
List of the Chubb MSS in the Heritage Centre, Taunton A/CSC
Notebooks
Jonathan Chubb’s Notebook, Somerset Archive Office Ref A/CSC/1/1, transcribed by John Robins
Introduction to the two Commonplace Books, transcribed by Tony Woolrich
Transcription of the John Chubb Commonplace Books Ref A/CSC/1/3, transcribed by Tony Woolrich
Letters
Chubb letters in the Heritage Centre, Taunton, ref A/CSC, series 1, transcribed by John Robins
Chubb letters in the Heritage Centre, Taunton, ref A/CSC/2/3, series 2, transcribed by Bernice Lashbrook
Chubb letters in the Heritage Centre, Taunton, ref A/CSC, series 3C, transcribed by Tony Woolrich
Artworks
List of the Chubb Topographical Paintings in the Blake Museum
Other Sources
Thomas DeQuincy finds Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Chubb’s 1807
Chubb’s Contemporaries
