Thomas Wyatt (c.1799 – 1859) was an English portrait-painter, born at Thickbroom circa 1799. He studied in the school of the
Royal Academy
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, and accompanied his brother
Henry to Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, practising as a portrait-painter without much success. In Manchester he tried photography. Eventually he settled as a portrait-painter in
Lichfield
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, and died there on 7 July 1859. His works are best known in the Midland counties, and especially at Birmingham, where he held the post of secretary to the Midland Society of Artists.
Personal
Wyatt was the younger brother of the artist
Henry Wyatt.
Works
*Thomas Wyatt (A. M.), ''A Manual of Conchology'', Publisher Harper & Brothers, 1838
''Beauties of Sacred Literature: Illustrated by Eight Steel Engravings'', edited by Thomas Wyatt, A.M. Publisher James Munroe & Company, 1848
References
*Albert Nicholson, ''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1885-1900, Volume 63
*Gent. Mag. 1840, ii. 555
*Samuel Redgrave, ''A Dictionary of Artists of the English School'', Publisher G. Bell, 1878
*''Manchester City News'', 15 May 1880
*Bryan's Dict. ed. Graves
*Graves's Dict. of Artists
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19th-century English painters
English male painters
British genre painters
English portrait painters
1790s births
1859 deaths
19th-century English male artists