Daniel Valentine Riviere (1780 – 17 February 1854) was an English miniaturist. He was the patriarch of the colourful London Riviere family of artists and singers.
Life
He was born in
London
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in 1780 the son of Samuel Newton Riviere and his wife Ann Garford.
His father was of
Huguenot
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descent.
Having trained at the
Royal Academy Schools
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from 1796, he later exhibited at the
Royal Academy from 1823 to 1840. Riviere was a drawing master in at least one school and also worked making miniature portraits (a fashion of the time), and also appears to have maintained an income from teaching art and singing.
Well respected in the Royal Academy he was a Gold Medal winner.
He lived and died in the
Marylebone
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An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough, it me ...
district, dying on 17 February 1854.
Family
On 18 December 1800 at
Westminster
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he married Henrietta Thunder (1781-1849) and had ten children.
His daughter
Fanny Riviere
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(also an artist) married the eminent sculptor
Charles Harriott Smith
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.
He was father of
William Riviere and
Robert Riviere and grandfather of
Briton Riviere.
His daughter
Anna
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People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century)
* Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 12 ...
(1810-1884) was a noted opera singer who married
Henry Rowley Bishop and ran off with her lover
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (9 August 1789 – 6 January 1856) was a harpist and composer. His relationship with Anna Bishop was popularly thought to have inspired that of Svengali and Trilby in George du Maurier's 1894 novel '' Trilby' ...
.
Henry Parsons Riviere was an artist and art teacher.
Known works
*
Maria I, Queen of Portugal
References
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1780 births
1854 deaths
People from Marylebone
English artists