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Henry Wyatt (artist)

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He was a man of refined tastes, living a quiet bachelor life, but, as his sketch-books show, always industriously working at every variety of drawing; family groups, landscapes, cattle, buildings, shipping, animals of many kinds and flowers were alike drawn with the utmost care and with much ability.
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He was a clever artist, a skilful draughtsman, and a good colourist, and both his portraits and subject-pictures earned him considerable popularity. "Vigilance" (Tate gallery) which was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1836 (it was engraved by
262: 103:. It was his intention to return to London in 1837, but having some portrait commissions in Manchester he first visited that town, and in the following April was seized with paralysis, from which he never recovered. 243: 216: 185: 331: 99:, also painting occasional subject pictures. In 1825, he settled in London, where he resided in Newman Street until 1834, when ill-health obliged him to move to 306: 118:); the "Philosopher", also called "Galileo" and "Archimedes", a fancy portrait, half-length life-size, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1832 (engraved by 296: 301: 311: 326: 204: 190: 316: 321: 129:), "Juliet", "Chapeau Noir", "Gentle Reader", "The Romance", "Clara Mowbray", and "Mars and Venus". He painted a portrait of 336: 130: 91:
At the end of 1817, he established himself as a portrait-painter, practising first at Birmingham and successively at
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on 17 September 1794. On the death of his father, when he was only three years old, he went to live at
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He exhibited 80 pictures in London between 1817 and 1838, including 35 at the Royal Academy.
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of a painting by Wyatt in The Amulet annual for 1835, with illustrative verse by
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for The Amulet annual, 1836, with a poetical illustration (Le Chapeau Noir) by
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Popular works include: "Fair Forester" and "Proffered Kiss" (both engraved by
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in 1811, and in the following year he was admitted to the school of the
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portrait
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Lichfield
Staffordshire
Birmingham
Francis Eginton
London
Royal Academy
Thomas Lawrence
Liverpool
Manchester
Leamington
Prestwich
G. A. Periam
Robert Bell
George Thomas Doo
Thomas Harrison
Chester Castle
William Bradley
Thomas Wyatt






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