George Clint

George Clint
Self-portrait by George Clint
Born	12 April 1770 Covent Garden, London
Died	10 May 1854(1854-05-10) (aged 84) Kensington, London
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Painter, engraver
Children	Scipio Clint, Raphael Clint, Alfred Clint

George Clint

Life

Clint was born in Brownlow Street, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, the son of Michael Clint, a hairdresser in Lombard Street. He went to school in Yorkshire and was then apprenticed to a fishmonger, but left after a violent dispute with his employer. He found alternative employment in an attorney's office, but took exception to the work and became a house-painter instead - one of his jobs was painting the stones of the arches in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He also decorated the exterior of a house built by Sir Christopher Wren in Cheapside, and was later employed by the bookseller Thomas Tegg.^[1]

He married the daughter of a small farmer in Berkshire; they had five sons and four daughters. His wife died a fortnight after giving birth to their son Alfred, who also became an artist.^[1]

Clint took up

Tate Gallery.^[1][2]

His early engravings include The Frightened Horse, after

Raphael cartoons in outline. His mezzotints included The Trial of Queen Caroline, after George Henry Harlow; a portrait of the William Pitt, after John Hoppner; a portrait of Margaret, Lady Dundas, after Thomas Lawrence; a portrait of Miss Siddons, again after Lawrence, and a print after a self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. There are also portraits of the engraver George Cook; the publisher John Bell; the actors Edmund Kean, Charles Young (as Hamlet), William Dowton and John Liston (the latter as Paul Pry) and the actresses Lucia Elizabeth Vestris and Julia Glover.^[1]

Family

One of Clint's sons,

marine painter

.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Clint, Scipio". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. ^ "Falstaff's Assignation with Mrs Ford". Tate Gallery.

Further reading

• Bryan, Michael. Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers, volume 1 (New York: Macmillan, 1903), p303.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Clint.

• 45 artworks by or after George Clint at the Art UK site
• George Clint on ArtCyclopedia
• George Clint on Artnet
• Works by George Clint at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Engravings by Clint on Grosvenor Prints"* Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
• Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
• Portrait of a Gentleman (Oil on canvas - Christie's)
• Portrait of Colonel John Edmund Harvey (oil on canvas, 1844)
• An engraving by S Davenport for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1836 of the painting The Astrologer. with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.