George Sanders (painter)

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Sanders by Andrew Geddes

George Sanders (1774 – 26 March 1846) was a Scottish portrait painter.

Biography

Sanders was born at

Sir W. Forbes, were well engraved by J. Burnet, C. Turner, H. Meyer
, and others.

Sanders painted several portraits of

, on 26 March 1846.

George Sanders trained and introduced his niece Christina Robertson to a customer basis for her miniatures. She was to become a painter at the Russian court.[2]

This Sanders has been confused with George Lethbridge Saunders (1807–1863), miniature-painter, frequently exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1829 and 1853; he was living in 1856.

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron (1788-1824) 1807-09". Royal Collection Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 12 Oct 2015

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainO'Donoghue, Freeman Marius (1897). "Sanders, George". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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