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enthusiastically participated in the Officer Training Corps. In November 1914 he joined the Territorial Army and served as an officer in the Suffolk Regiment, achieving the rank of captain. In 1915 he was awarded the Military Cross for the brave command of a trench mortar position under extreme conditions. After the war he joined the Imperial Tobacco Company, where he eventually became a director. Charles Havell also sat on a judicial panel which heard cases concerning commercial practice.
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take on a work of this magnitude, Robert Havell Sr. contacted his son, Robert Havell Jr., who had quarrelled with his father and left London in an attempt to launch an independent artistic career. Robert Havell Jr. consented to reestablish the partnership with his father and agreed to engrave the plates of Audubon's drawings, with Robert Sr. supervising their printing and colouring. The collaboration between father and son continued in this way until Robert Havell Sr.'s retirement in 1828.
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Charles Cedric Havell. Grandson of Charles Richard Havell. His father, Charles G Havell was a doctor at Felixstowe. His mother Cicely Ridpath was a model for Louise Jopling the artist. Charles Cedric went to Rugby School, Warwickshire and then Pembroke College, Cambridge University. While at Rugby he
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The Daniel Havell who was the son of Thomas Havell was baptised on 30 November 1786 at St Mary's, Reading; married Maria Alice Wilmot (1796-1873), daughter of Dr. Samuel and Martha (née Russell) Wilmot on 5 June 1813 at St James's in Paddington; and was buried on 19 May 1822 at Kingston upon Thames,
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In 1824, following the marriage of his son, Robert moved the business to 79 Newman Street, where John James Audubon approached him in 1827 to engrave a portfolio of 240 drawings he had brought with him from America. Recognizing that without the help of another expert engraver he would not be able to
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of Robert (and sometimes of Luke as well); but more recent references generally place him as born in 1785, the son of Luke's brother Thomas, also a painter, who was born in 1762. Daniel moved to London, and set up in partnership as an aquatint engraver with Robert Havell. Together they published
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district of London, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Robert was the brother of Luke Havell, and named as such in Luke's will; another brother, William, a butcher, was buried in Reading in 1832. In February 1793 Robert married Lydia Miller Phillips at
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Luke Havell, born 1752, was lifted from a future life as a farmhand when a local squire recognised his talents and apprenticed him to a signwriter named Ayliffe Cole, from 1762 to 1764. He was appointed drawing-master at
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Robert Havell Sr. (29 December 1769 – 21 November 1832) was the proprietor of a printing and engraving shop, with an ancillary business in natural history artefacts, in the
565:(1999/2006) hedges, writing that "According to their descendants, Robert was undeniably Daniel's son, though there is evidence to suggest that he may have been his uncle." 244:. He and Audubon became close friends and associates during their lengthy collaboration. In 1839 Havell went to America at the invitation of Audubon, first residing in 232:, seen in America as "perhaps the most significant natural history publication of all time". His aquatint engraving of all but the first ten plates of 36:
and painters, as well as writers, publishers, educators, and musicians. In particular, members of this family were among the foremost practitioners of
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painter; "decorator to the King" (according to Bryan). Born 1796 Reading; married Elizabeth Sims 1821; emigrated to the United States 1829.
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Susannah Maria Havell: musician and music teacher, working with her aunt the minor composer Hannah Rampton Binfield. Born 1822 Reading.
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is now recognised as a significant artistic achievement in its own right and an essential component of the success of
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The following list of Luke Havell's descendants is incomplete; covering only those referenced in published sources.
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Charles Havell: painter and drawing master at the Reading School. Born 1792 Reading; married Thirza Cheverton 1824.
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Luke Havell: drawing master and painter. Born Reading; married Charlotte Phillips 1778; died 1810 Reading.
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Edmund Havell junior: genre and portrait painter, and lithographer; frequently exhibited at the
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Robert Havell Jr. (25 November 1793 – 11 November 1878) was the principal engraver of Audubon's
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Leaves from Robert Havell Sr.'s family bible; published in George F. Tudor Sherwood (1907),
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church in London; their eldest son Robert was born in Reading in December the same year.
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his occupation given as "artist". His widow married artist John Gendall (1790-1865).
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An engraving by Frederick James Havell for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 of
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Alfred Charles Havell: painter of horses and figurative subjects; exhibited at the
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Williams, George Alfred (1916). "Robert Havell, Junior, Engraver of Audubon's
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Herbert Lord Havell: classicist and writer; his posthumously published
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Charles Richard(s) Havell: landscape painter, exhibited at the
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Historical and descriptive accounts of the theatres of London
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Edmund Havell: drawing master and painter; exhibited at the
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The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920
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Robert Havell Jr.'s shop, The Zoological Gallery, at 77
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and made experiments in photography. Born 1801 Reading.
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of American painters. He died in 1878 and is buried in
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By 1801 Havell was established at 3 Chapel Street, off
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On the Sublime by Longinus (translator H. L. Havell)
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Index

Reading, Berkshire
England
engravers
etchers
aquatint
art
culture
Reading Grammar School
Richard Valpy
William Havell

Oxford Street
Marylebone
St Sepulchre
Tottenham Court Road
Old St. Pancras Church

aquatint
John Gendall
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Henry Salt
Rudolph Ackermann
Eton
Winchester
Rugby
St Paul's Cathedral
Repository of Arts
E.W. Brayley

Birds of America

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