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Charles Catton the younger (30 December 1756 – 24 April 1819) was an
In 1788 he published an early book of coloured ''Animals Drawn from Nature''
(London: printed for the author and sold by I. and J. Taylor, 1787-1788). He emigrated to the
Charles Catton the younger (30 December 1756 – 24 April 1819) was an English
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-born American topographical artist, illustrator, theatrical scene-painter, and slave-owner.
Life and work
Catton, was born inLondon
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, the son of Charles Catton the elder. He received art tuition from his father and also studied at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
schools. He travelled extensively through England and Scotland, making sketches, some of which were afterwards engraved and published. He was known as a scene-painter for the theatre, and also as a topographical artist.
At the Royal Academy in 1775 he exhibited a ''View of London from Blackfriars Bridge'', and one of ''Westminster from Westminster Bridge''. In 1793, he showed designs, along with fellow artist E A Burney, for John Gay
John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for ''The Beggar's Opera'' (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peac ...
's ''Fables'', which were subsequently published. At the Royal Academy from 1776 to 1800 he exhibited 37 works in total.
In the latter, he was recorded as living in Purley.
From 1781 to 1794, he was a scene painter at Covent Garden
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist si ...
.
In 1788 he published an early book of coloured aquatint
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. It has also been used h ...
s, ''Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta
''Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta'' is a book written and illustrated by Charles Catton the younger and published in London in 1788. It is a very early example of a work including hand-coloured aquatints. The thirty-six ani ...
''. The book included images and descriptions, written and etched by Catton, of thirty-six animals from around the world.(London: printed for the author and sold by I. and J. Taylor, 1787-1788). He emigrated to the
United States
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in 1804 and settled in a farm on the River Hudson
The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between New Y ...
with his two daughters and a son. There he lived until his death, painting occasionally. He is said to have "acquired wealth"' through his painting. He was also a slave owner
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* Adelicia Acklen (1817–1887), at one time the wealthiest woman in Tennessee, she inh ...
. In 1815, he severely beat his slave, Robert, who was engaged in a relationship with Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Baumfree; November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist of New York Dutch heritage and a women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to f ...
, herself at the time enslaved on a neighboring farm. Catton died on 24 April 1819.
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