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Valentine Bartholomew (18 January 1799 – 21 March 1879) was an English flower painter.
Bartholomew had some professional instruction in art early on, but was largely self-taught. Between 1821 and 1827, he worked for and lived with the lithographer Charles Hullmandel, whose daughter Adelaide he married at the end of this period. She died in January 1839, and the next year, he married Ann Charlotte Turnbull (d. 1862), an author and flower and miniature painter, the widow of the composer Walter Turnbull.
Bartholomew was an early member of the
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Valentine Bartholomew (18 January 1799 – 21 March 1879) was an English flower painter.
Life
Bartholomew had some professional instruction in art early on, but was largely self-taught. Between 1821 and 1827, he worked for and lived with the lithographer Charles Hullmandel, whose daughter Adelaide he married at the end of this period. She died in January 1839, and the next year, he married Ann Charlotte Turnbull (d. 1862), an author and flower and miniature painter, the widow of the composer Walter Turnbull.
Bartholomew was an early member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours
The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours. The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for a diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of wat ...
, which he joined in 1835. He had a special talent for flower painting, a branch of art which he pursued with much success, his works being chiefly remarkable for the great care and the large scale on which they were carried out. 'Azaleas ' and "Camellias" are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum
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. Bartholomew held for many years the post of Flower Painter in Ordinary
Flower Painter in Ordinary, also called ''Flower Painter to the Queen'', is a position in the United Kingdom awarded to a painter, and connected to the Queen. Holders of the office included:
*Joseph Barney, "Fruit and Flower Painter to the Queen", ...
to the Queen
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from 1837.
He died in his 80th year on 21 March 1879 and is 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 ...
with his wife Ann. The grave (plot no.11876) is immediately to the right of the north gatekeeper's lodge.
References
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