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George Edwards Hering
George Edwards Hering (1805 – 18 December 1879) was an English landscape painter. Life Born in London, he was a younger son of a German father who was a bookbinder. At an early age he lost his father. He was a clerk in a bank, but took up art as his profession. In 1829 Hering studied in the art school at Munich, and Lord Erskine sent him with letters of introduction to Venice. After about two years there, he travelled in Italy, and round the Adriatic to Constantinople and Smyrna. On his return to Rome he met John Paget, and with Paget and a Mr. Sanford went on a tour through Hungary and Transylvania among the Carpathian mountains. Hering settled in London, where he practised as a landscape-painter for the rest of his life, paying occasional visits to Italy. He died in London in 1879 and is buried at Highgate Cemetery (West). His wife was also an artist, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 and 1858. Works John Paget published an account of his Hungarian tour with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Edwards Hering
George Edwards Hering (1805 – 18 December 1879) was an English landscape painter. Life Born in London, he was a younger son of a German father who was a bookbinder. At an early age he lost his father. He was a clerk in a bank, but took up art as his profession. In 1829 Hering studied in the art school at Munich, and Lord Erskine sent him with letters of introduction to Venice. After about two years there, he travelled in Italy, and round the Adriatic to Constantinople and Smyrna. On his return to Rome he met John Paget, and with Paget and a Mr. Sanford went on a tour through Hungary and Transylvania among the Carpathian mountains. Hering settled in London, where he practised as a landscape-painter for the rest of his life, paying occasional visits to Italy. He died in London in 1879 and is buried at Highgate Cemetery (West). His wife was also an artist, and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 and 1858. Works John Paget published an account of his Hungarian tour with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker and was also a discriminating art collector. Early life and family Rogers was born at Newington Green, then a village north of Islington, and now in Inner London. His father, Thomas Rogers, a banker and briefly MP for Coventry, was the son of a Stourbridge glass manufacturer, who was also a merchant in Cheapside. Thomas married Mary, the only daughter of his father's partner, Daniel Radford, becoming himself a partner shortly afterwards. On his mother's side Samuel Rogers was connected with the well-kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century English Painters
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Burials At Highgate Cemetery
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1879 Deaths
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1805 Births
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Charles George Lewis
Charles George Lewis (13 June 1808 – 16 June 1880) was a British printmaker. Life The second son of Frederick Christian Lewis, and brother of John Frederick Lewis, he was born in Enfield, Middlesex. He was instructed in drawing and engraving by his father. Lewis retired in about 1877, and died suddenly from apoplexy at his residence at Felpham, near Bognor, on 16 June 1880. He was buried in Felpham churchyard. Works Lewis had a facility in etching, and in combining line engraving, stipple, and mezzotint. Many of his best-known plates were after the works of Sir Edwin Landseer. The earliest of these was ''Hafed'', published in 1837. Besides these were smaller plates after works of Landseer, most of which had previously been engraved by Thomas Landseer and others. His etchings after Landseer began with ''To-ho!'' published in 1830, and included the set of eight plates of ''The Mothers''. Lewis engraved also some plates after Rosa Bonheur.''Bouricairos crossing the Pyrenees' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Brandard
Robert Brandard (1805, in Birmingham – 1862, in London) was a British landscape engraver and landscapist. Brandard was the eldest son of Thomas Brandard (d. 1830), engraver and copperplate printer, of Barford Street, Deritend, Birmingham, and his wife, Ann. He went to London in 1824, and entered the studio of Edward Goodall, with whom he remained a year. He engraved some of the subjects for Brockedon's ''Passes of the Alps'', Captain Batty's ''Saxony'', Turner's ''England and Wales'' and ''English Rivers'', and numerous plates for ''The Art Journal'', after Turner, Stanfield, Callcott, Herring, and others. His most important engravings on a large scale were Turner's "Crossing the Brook", "The Snow-storm", and "The Bay of Baiae". He also published two volumes of etchings, chiefly landscapes, after his own designs. He occasionally exhibited small oil pictures at the British Institution, which were distinguished by a good feeling for nature and a healthy tone of colour. The w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Art Journal
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Edward Goodall
Edward Goodall (1795 – 11 April 1870) was a British engraver. He is now best known for his plates after J. M. W. Turner. Life He was born at Leeds on 17 September 1795, and was entirely self-taught. From the age of sixteen he practised both engraving and painting. One of his pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1822 or 1823 attracted the attention of Turner, and he became a landscape engraver. Goodall died at Hampstead Road, London, on 11 April 1870. Works Goodall's major engravings were from the works of Turner. He made the vignettes for Samuel Rogers's ''Italy'' and ''Poems'', and the illustrations to Thomas Campbell's ''Poems''. He engraved also: * ''A Seaport at Sunset'' and ''The Marriage Festival of Isaac and Rebecca'' after Claude Lorrain; * a ''Landscape, with Cattle and Figures'', after Aelbert Cuyp; and * ''The Market Cart'' after Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert, Prince Consort
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British Institution
The British Institution (in full, the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom; founded 1805, disbanded 1867) was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it was also known as the Pall Mall Picture Galleries or the British Gallery. Unlike the Royal Academy it admitted only connoisseurs, dominated by the nobility, rather than practising artists to its membership, which along with its conservative taste led to tensions with the British artists it was intended to encourage and support. In its gallery in Pall Mall the Institution held the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings, which alternated with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists; both quickly established themselves as popular parts of the London social and artistic calendar. From 1807 prizes were given to artists and surplus funds were used to buy paintings for the nation. Although it continued to att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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