Mary Margaret Heaton
Mary Margaret Heaton (née Keymer , born May 15, 1836 - June 1, 1883 ) wrote Albrecht Dürer's first biography in English in 1870 . She is considered one of the best art historians of the 19th century.
Life
Mary Margaret Heaton was born as Mary Margaret Keymer; one of her brothers was John Keymer. Her father, James Keymer, was a silk printer, and a maternal uncle was Samuel Laman Blanchard . He died when Mary Margaret Keymer was a child. In 1862 she married Charles William Heaton. Joseph Cundall encouraged her to write. Kinderverse appeared in 1862, The Great Works of Sir David Wilkie in 1868 , Masterpieces of Flemish Art in 1869, and the History of the Life of Albrecht Dürer in 1870 on the artist's 400th birthday . For this book she compiled translations of all of the then known works on Dürer. William Bell Scott benefited a little later in his Dürerbiographie from this preparatory work that Mary Margaret Heaton had done, and attacked it at the same time with severe criticism of her book. In 1873 she published A Concise History of Painting ; a year later together with Charles Christopher Black Leonardo da Vinci and his Works .
From 1869 Mary Margaret Heaton was also a permanent contributor to the art magazine The Academy ; In 1875 she translated Julius Meyer's correggiobiography into English and in 1879 she brought out a new edition of the Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters by Allan Cunningham . She wrote the introductions for the final edition of Bryan's Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers .
Mary Margaret Heaton died after a long illness.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ lordbyron.org ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetical Works II: Poems (Variorum Text): 002 , Princeton University Press 2001, ISBN 978-0-691-00484-6 , p. 1265
- ↑ In 1865 a James Keymer founded a factory on the Darent river , cf. The New Wave of Digital Fabric Printing Technology .
- ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette, December 4, 1866, p. 1476 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 139 kB)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Heaton, Mary Margaret |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keymer, Mary Margaret (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1836 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1883 |