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William Henry Pyne (1769 in London – 29 May 1843 in London) was an English writer,

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and

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, who also wrote under the name of Ephraim Hardcastle. He trained at the drawing academy of

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in London. He first exhibited at the

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in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.

Works

Pyne's book ''The Costume of Great Britain'', including 60 paintings of professional and working-class men and women and scenes from everyday life (published by William Miller in 1805), attracted the attention of the publisher

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, and Pyne was to engrave and write for many of his projects, including writing the text for the first two volumes of the very successful illustration-centred '' The Microcosm of London''. He was his own publisher for ''The History of the Royal Residences'' (1816–1819), a large illustrated book with 100 engravings of the exteriors and interior decorations and furnishings of Windsor Castle,

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, Carlton House,

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and

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. It caused financial difficulties for him – he was imprisoned for debt more than once, and died a poor man in 1843. As Ephraim Hardcastle, he wrote gossipy columns on art for the ''

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'', which in 1824 were collected in 2 volumes as ''Wine and Walnuts, or After-dinner Chit-chat''. He wrote for other journals, and in 1825 published a novel ''The Twenty-ninth of May, or Rare Doings at the Restoration''. Pyne's watercolours are in major museum collections, such as the

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and the British Museum. His son, George Pyne (1800–01 - 1884), was also a painter in watercolour, writer on drawing and perspective.Ford

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File:An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration LCCN2003681692.tiff, ''An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration'', 1796–1808 File:Pyne KingsAudienceChamber WindsorCastle edited.jpg , The King's Audience Chamber at Windsor Castle, from ''The History of the Royal Residences'' File:Pynes-hamp1quadrangle.jpg , The quadrangle at Hampton Court File:St George's Chapel from the Altar, Windsor Castle, from Pyne's Royal Residences, 1819 - panteek pyn16-532.jpg, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle from the Altar, from Pyne's ''Royal Residences'', 1819. File:William Pyne- The Costume of Great Britain (1805) - The Pillory.JPG , The Pillory, from ''The Costume of Great Britain'', 1805 File:Waterman to a Coach Stand, 1808.jpg , Waterman to a Coach Stand, from ''The Costume of Great Britain'', 1808 File:Laundry 1806.PNG , Man and woman washing linen in a brook, from ''Microcosm'', 1806

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History of Royal Residences by W. H. Pyne
' ''www.greyheronsprints.com'', Grey Heron Prints *

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