Charles James Adams (1859–1931) was an English landscape artist born in Gravesend, Kent, and second child of Charles Adams and his wife Sarah. Charles studied at Leicester School of Art under Wilmot Pilsbury, where he won the Mulready Gold Medal for Life Drawing from the Society of Arts, London. A prolific artist of landscapes with animals, genre and historical subjects, he painted mainly in oils, although produced a number of lithographs and was also an extremely accomplished watercolourist. He lived in various parts of England, including Leicester 1891, Sydenham London 1895, Horsham Surrey 1897, Billingshurst 1900 and Midhurst 1901 in West Sussex, Guildford Surrey 1904 and finally settling in Farnham Surrey 1905 until his death on 8 November 1931, aged 72.
- Occupation
- painter, visual artist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
