Henry Howard (painter)
Portrait of Henry Howard by George Dance the Younger (1741-1825), engraving by William Daniell (1769-1837)
Henry Howard (born January 31, 1769 in London , † October 5, 1847 in Oxford ) was an English history and portrait painter.
Henry Howard trained as a painter in Rome, especially under John Flaxman , and returned to England in 1794 after having made a name for himself through his painting The Death of Cain .
In 1808 he became a member of the academy and in 1811 secretary and professor of painting at the same. He died in Oxford on October 5, 1847.
Howard combined a delicate and poetic feeling with appealing technology. The most famous paintings by his hand are:
- Hero and Leander
- Lear and Cordelia
- The hearing
- The Lautenschlägerin
- The birth of Venus
His son Frank Howard , also a painter and draftsman (born in London in 1805, died in Liverpool in 1866), edited his father's lectures on painting (London 1848, 2 vols.).
literature
- Henry Howard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 583 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howard, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English history and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1769 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1847 |
| Place of death | Oxford |