Hastings, Thomas (1778–1854), army officer, customs officer, and artist, was born on 20 July 1778 in St Pancras, London, where he was baptized, the son of Edward Barnett, an attorney of the court of the king’s bench and solicitor of the high court of chancery, and his wife ...
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S. D. Chapman
Kilburn, William (1745–1818), artist and calico printer, was born on 1 November 1745, at Capel Street, Dublin, the only son of Samuel Kilburn, architect of that city. He showed an early talent for drawing, and was apprenticed to John Lisson, an English calico printer with a large works at ...
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Nixon, John Colley (bap. 1755, d. 1818), merchant and artist, was the son of Robert Nixon (d. 1794), a successful Irish merchant working in Uphall and Tokenhouse, London, and his wife, Lucretia, née Wilson (bap. 1728). Details from his childhood remain obscure. In his memoirs ...
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Sharples, James (1825–1893), blacksmith and artist, was born on 4 September 1825 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, one of the thirteen children of James Sharples (c.1793–1855), blacksmith and wrought iron worker, and his wife, Margaret (c.1797–1854). Both Sharples's grandfathers were blacksmiths, and ...
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Martin Myrone
Smart, George (1775/6–1846), tailor and textile artist, was famously associated with the village of Frant in Sussex, near Tunbridge Wells, living there most of his life and often being referred to as ‘the tailor of Frant’. The George Smart who was buried in ...
