Richard Belgrave Hoppner
Richard Belgrave Hoppner (born January 9, 1786 in London , † August 6, 1872 in Turin ) was an English painter, diplomat, translator and friend of Lord Byron .
Life
Hoppner was the second son of the painter John Hoppner . He attended school at the age of four. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Germany to learn the language. He originally wanted to be an artist and studied painting. From 1801 to 1814 he worked at the Foreign Office , the United Kingdom's Foreign Office . As a guest of the admiral, he was present at the sea battle of Copenhagen and painted the picture Sea View and Shipping . In January 1805 he was in the British naval blockade of Cadiz .
In 1813 he translated the travelogue of Adam Johann von Krusenstern's Russian circumnavigation expedition (1803-06) from German into English.
In September 1814 he married Marie Isabelle May in Brussels , the daughter of Beat Louis May (Seigneur d'Oron et de Brandis) from the canton of Bern.
From November 1814 to 1825 he was appointed English consul in Venice . There he made friends in 1817 with the poet Lord Byron , through whom he also met Mary Shelley , the author of Frankenstein . Another friend was Count Francesco Rizzo.
When Hoppner's son John William Rizzo Hoppner was born on January 18, 1818 , Byron wrote the poem On The Birth Of John William Rizzo Hoppner , which has been translated into numerous languages. The son wanted to become an engineer, studied from 1834 in Heidelberg with Georg Wilhelm Munke and stayed there in Engelmann's house. In March 1836 he met William Fothergill Cooke , whom he made aware of the telegraph. He later worked for Robert Stephenson on the construction of the Florence - Livorno railway line , the preparations for which were completed in 1839.
Richard Belgrave Hoppner later lived in Versailles and moved to Turin after the death of his wife in 1870.
Publications
- Kruzenshtern, Ivan Federovich (1770-1846). Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, by order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the Ships Nadezhda and Neva, under the command of Captain AJ von Krusentern. ( Online )
literature
- The Hoppner Children ; In: British paintings of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries ; P. 130
- CSB Buckland: The English Historical Review , Vol. 39, No. 155 (Jul., 1924), pp. 373-385, Oxford University Press.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Times of August 13, 1872
- ↑ http://www.jstor.org/pss/552120
- ^ The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals ; P. 83
- ↑ Polytechnisches Centralblatt , editions 37-73, p. 699
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoppner, Richard Belgrave |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1872 |
| Place of death | Turin |