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Aggas, Robert (c. 1620–c. 1682), landscape and scene painter  

W. C. Monkhouse

revised by Arianne Burnette

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Aggas, Robert (c. 1620–c. 1682), landscape and scene painter, was the son of Samuel Agas of St Andrew's parish, Holborn. The family was originally from Stoke by Nayland in Suffolk. Samuel Agas was the son of Edward Aggas, a bookseller and printer, and relative of ...

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Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre (1720–1791), landscape painter and garden designer  

Philip White

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Bampfylde, Coplestone Warre (1720–1791), landscape painter and garden designer, was born on 28 February 1720 at Hestercombe House, Kingston, Taunton, great-grandson of Sir Coplestone Bampfylde (1637/8–1692) and the eldest of nine children of John Bampfylde (1691–1750), MP for Exeter and Devon, and his second wife, ...

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Barber, Joseph (bap. 1758, d. 1811), landscape painter  

C. E. Dawkins

revised by R. J. Lambert

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Barber, Joseph (bap. 1758, d. 1811), landscape painter, was baprized at Newcastle upon Tyne on 28 January 1758, one of the six children of Joseph Barber (1706-1781), bookseller and copperplate printer, who resided at Amen Corner, and his wife, Eleanor née...

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Barret, George (1767–1842), landscape painter  

Huon Mallalieu

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Barret, George (1767–1842), landscape painter, was born in Orchard Street, Oxford Street, London, in December 1767, the third son of George Barret (1732?–1784) RA, the landscape painter, and his wife, Frances, née Percy, about four years after his father's arrival from Dublin. His eldest brother, ...

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Beaumont, Sir George Howland, seventh baronet (1753–1827)  

Maker: John Hoppner

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Sir George Howland Beaumont, seventh baronet (1753–1827) by John Hoppner, 1803–8 © The National Gallery, London

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Beaumont, Sir George Howland, seventh baronet (1753–1827), art patron and landscape painter  

Felicity Owen and David Blayney Brown

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Beaumont, Sir George Howland, seventh baronet (1753–1827), art patron and landscape painter, was born on 6 November 1753, at Dunmow, Essex, the only surviving son of Sir George Beaumont, sixth baronet (1726–1762), landowner, and his wife, Rachel (1717/18–1814), daughter of Michael Howland of ...

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Beechey, Henry William (1788–1862), painter and explorer  

Peta Rée

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Beechey, Henry William (1788–1862), painter and explorer, was born on 6 May 1788, probably at 37 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London, the eldest son of the portrait painter Sir William Beechey (1753–1839) and his first wife Mary, née French (1750–1793). Nothing is known of his education. In August 1815 he became secretary to ...

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Beechey, Richard Brydges (1808–1895), marine painter and naval officer  

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Beverly, William Roxby (1810?–1889), scene-painter  

W. J. Lawrence

revised by C. D. Watkinson

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Beverly, William Roxby (1810?–1889), scene-painter, was born at Richmond, Surrey, probably in 1810, the youngest son of William Beverly or Beverley (1764/5–1842) and his wife, Mary (1775/6–1851). The elder Beverly, a well-known actor–manager, had abandoned his own surname of Roxby on taking to the boards, to distinguish himself from his uncle ...

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Boddington, Henry John (1811–1865), landscape painter  

Jan Reynolds

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Boddington, Henry John (1811–1865), landscape painter, was born in the Marylebone district of London, as Henry John Williams, second son of the painter Edward (‘Moonlight’) Williams (1781–1855) and his wife, Ann Hildebrandt (bap. 1780, d. 1851), who was of German-Jewish extraction. Edward Williams...

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Bough, Samuel (1822–1878), landscape and marine painter  

Gil Hitchon and Pat Hitchon

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Bough, Samuel (1822–1878), landscape and marine painter, was born on 8 January 1822 at Abbey Street, Carlisle, the third of five children of James Bough (1794–1845), shoemaker, and Lucy Walker (1785–1836), a cook. He was baptized at St Mary's Church on 10 February. ...

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Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters (1817–1894), marine painter and naval engineer  

Delia Millar

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Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters (1817–1894), marine painter and naval engineer, was born at Chester on 19 May 1817, the son of Dr Thomas Brierly (d. in or before 1872), a physician and amateur artist. After schooling in Chester, he became a pupil at ...

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Brierly, Sir Oswald Walters (1817–1894)  

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Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817–1894) by unknown engraver, pubd 1887 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Callow, John (1822–1878), marine painter and drawing-master  

A. R. Pennie

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Callow, John (1822–1878), marine painter and drawing-master, was born on 19 July 1822 in St Pancras, London, son of Robert Callow (b. 1786), a London carpenter, and his wife, Elizabeth, both of whom died in 1848. His childhood ambition was to be a sailor but in 1835 his elder brother ...

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Carmichael, John Wilson (1799–1868), marine painter  

Andrew Greg

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Carmichael, John Wilson (1799–1868), marine painter, was born on 9 June 1799 in Tyne Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, the eldest of the three children of William Carmichael, a shipwright, and Mary, daughter of James Johnson, a mariner. After spending some three of his early teenage years at sea, he was apprenticed in his father's trade to ...

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Chambers, George (1803–1840), marine painter  

Alan Russett

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Chambers, George (1803–1840), marine painter, was born on 23 September 1803 in Whitby, Yorkshire, the fourth of the eight children of John Chambers (d. c.1827), a mariner, and his wife, Mary Appleby (d. c.1825). The family lived in extreme poverty and ...

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Churchyard, Thomas (1798–1865), landscape painter and lawyer  

Denis Thomas

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Churchyard, Thomas (1798–1865), landscape painter and lawyer, was born on 22 January 1798 at the family home, a butcher's shop, opposite the Horse and Groom in the village of Melton, Suffolk, the only child of Jonathan Churchyard (1765–1825), cattle dealer, grazier, and butcher, and his wife, ...

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Cole, George (1810–1883)  

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George Cole (1810–1883) by unknown engraver, pubd 1883 (after Henry van der Weyde) © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Cole, George (1810–1883), landscape and animal painter  

Tim Barringer

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Cole, George (1810–1883), landscape and animal painter, was born on 15 January 1810 in London, the second child and only son of James Cole (1772–1847) and Elizabeth Parker (d. 1819). Information about his early life is scanty: according to his grandson, Rex Vicat Cole...

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Cole, Reginald George Vicat [Rex] (1870–1940)  

Maker: John Byam Shaw

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Reginald George Vicat Cole (1870–1940) by John Byam Shaw, 1898 © National Portrait Gallery, London