John Hayter (21 October 1800 – 3 June 1895) was an English portrait painter who was Painter-in-Ordinary to

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, whom he first painted when she was 12 years old.

Biography

He was the second son of the miniaturist Charles Hayter and brother of

Sir George Hayter Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871) was an England, English Painting, painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Vic ...

, also a portraitist. He entered the

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in 1815, and began to exhibit at the

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in the same year. He also exhibited work at the

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and the

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. Hayter established himself during the 1820s, with portraits of notable figures such as the

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and the opera singer,

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. His portrait drawings, in chalks or crayons, became particularly popular, a number of them being engraved for ''The Court Album'', which contained portraits of the female aristocracy (1850–57).

Gallery

File:Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew by John Hayter.jpg, Admiral Sir Benjamin Carew c 1833 File:Lady Augusta FitzClarence and children.jpg, Lady Augusta FitzClarence and children File:Characteristics of women - moral, poetical, and historical (1853) (14765068765).jpg, ''Characteristics of women - moral, poetical, and historical'' (1853) File:Catherine, Lady Stepney by John Hayter.jpg, Catherine, Lady Stepney

Bibliography

*Drawings by Sir George and John Hayter (exh. cat. by B. Coffey ryant London, Morton Morris, 1982) ncl. checklist of prints

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* * , engraved by James Thomson for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hayter, John 1800 births 1895 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters Artists from Marylebone Royal Academicians Court painters 19th-century English male artists

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