Charles Joseph Hullmandel (15 June 1789 – 15 November 1850) was born in

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, where he maintained a

lithographic Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

establishment on

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from about 1819 until his death. He was born in Queen Street,

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. His father was a German-speaking musician and composer, Nicolaus Joseph Hüllmandel (1751–1823), a native of

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who became a pupil of

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and from 1780 spent ten years as a fashionable music teacher in

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. In 1787 he married a Mademoiselle du Cazan, who was of a noble French family, and in 1789 sent his wife to England, following her in 1790, as the

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unfolded. As a young man, Charles Hullmandel studied art and spent several years living and working in

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. He learned

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniq ...

and printed many of his own works.''The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review'', vol. 189 (1851), p. 209 In 1818, he set up a printing press in London after a visit to

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with

Rudolph Ackermann Rudolph Ackermann (20 April 1764 in Schneeberg, Electorate of Saxony – 30 March 1834 in Finchley, London) was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman. Biography He attended the Latin school in Stollberg ...

, and went on to study

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under

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for the purpose of improving his printing. During the first half of the 19th century Hullmandel became one of the most important figures in the development of British lithography, and his name appears on the imprints of thousands of lithographic prints. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft colour washes which enabled the printed reproduction of Romantic

landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...

s of the type made popular in England by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay ''The Art of Drawing on Stone'' (1824) was an important handbook of lithography. In 1843 he went into partnership with Joseph Fowell Walton (born 1812, living 1863), a cousin of the landscape artist and lithographer W. L. Walton, the firm then becoming known as Hullmandel & Walton. Grave of Charles Joseph Hullmandel in Highgate Cemetery

Grave of Charles Joseph Hullmandel in Highgate Cemetery

He died at Westminster in 1850''The Annual Register'' for 1850
p. 280
/ref> and was buried on the western side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...

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Pictures of C. J. Hullmandel in the online database VIATIMAGES

National Maritime Museum

British Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hullmandel, Charles Joseph English printmakers English lithographers 1789 births 1850 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery

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