Aglio, Augustine Maria [formerly Agostino Maria] (1777–1857), painter and lithographer, was born on 15 December 1777 in Cremona, Italy, one of several children of Gaetano Aglio, a notary, and Marianna Mondini. He moved with his family in 1787 to Milan, where he was educated at the ...
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Charles Newton
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Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) self-portrait, 1834 [detail] © The Natural History Museum, London
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Fitch, Walter Hood (1817–1892), botanical artist and lithographer, was born on 29 January 1817 in Lanark, Scotland, the second son of five children of John Fitch (1790–c.1850), cloth merchant, and his wife, Catherine Maria Hood (1786–1859), a milliner and dressmaker. After a year at ...
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Michael Twyman
Lane, Richard James (1800–1872), lithographer and sculptor, was born on 16 February 1800 at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, the second son of the Revd Theophilus Lane (1764–1814), prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, and his wife, Sophia, née Gardiner, the niece of the painter Thomas Gainsborough...
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Nash, Joseph (1809–1878), architectural painter and lithographer, was born on 17 December 1809 at Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the eldest son of the Revd Okey Nash (1779?–1862), proprietor of the Manor House School in Croydon. He was educated at his father's school and then about 1827 apprenticed to ...
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Rayner, Samuel (1806–1879), watercolour painter and lithographer, was born on 15 April 1806 in Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, the third of the five children of Samuel (d. 1817) and Margaret Rayner. In 1812 Rayner's parents moved to London, where they established an ironmonger's business at ...
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George Johann Scharf (1788–1860) self-portrait © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Scharf, George Johann (1788–1860), draughtsman and lithographer, was born in Mainburg, Bavaria, on 19 April 1788, the son of Andreas Scharf, a tradesman, and his wife, Franziska, née von Pfeffenhausen. His father's business was apparently ruined during the wars which followed the French Revolution, and at the age of thirteen ...
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Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863–1937) self-portrait, 1897 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Joseph Darracott
Shannon, Charles Haslewood (1863–1937), lithographer and painter, was born on 26 April 1863 at Quarrington rectory, Lincolnshire, the second son of Frederick William Shannon (c.1821–1909?), rector of Quarrington with Old Sleaford, and his first wife, Catherine Emma (b. c.1835)...
