Henry Howard (artist)
Henry Howard
painter.Biography
He was born in London and after being educated at a school in
In March 1791, Howard traveled to Italy, France, and Switzerland. In Rome, he met and studied sculpture with John Flaxman and John Deare. In 1792 he painted a Dream of Cain. While abroad he applied to the Royal Academy for a grant after the bankruptcy of his father. Two years later, he returned to Britain by way of Vienna and Dresden. He began instructing Reinagle's daughter Jane in drawing and married her in 1803. Together they had four daughters and three sons. From 1806 they lived at 50 Newman Street, Westminster, until his death.[2]
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In the 1790s Howard painted and drew a variety of subjects from literature, portraits, and drawings of sculpture. In 1795 and 1796, he submitted five such pictures to the Royal Academy, including a sketch from
Howard was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy and exhibited there until his death in 1847; he was elected a full member in 1808. In 1811 he became secretary of the Academy and in 1833 he was appointed professor of painting at the Schools (his lectures were published by his son,
While his history paintings were in a neo-classical academic style following Flaxman and others, his portraits continued the general tradition of English 18th-century portraiture and many of his portraits are in the National Gallery.[4] His history paintings are hard to find on public display but his ceiling for the dining-room of the Sir John Soane's Museum, an Aurora adapted from Guido Reni (1837), can be seen obliquely.[5]
In addition to his portraiture and historical painting, Howard worked on many decorative works. In 1805, a Mr. Hibbert commissioned him to paint a
Howard died in Oxford on 5 October 1847 of "paralysis".[2]
Works
Two poetical illustrations of Howard's works were written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. The first, of The Hours, in her Poetical Catalogue of Paintings in The Literary Gazette (1823),[9] and the second, of Fairies on the Sea Shore in her Poetical Catalogue of Modern Paintings in her 1825 volume The Troubadour; Catalogue of Pictures, and Historical Sketches,[10] this latter poem reappearing in The Cabinet of Modern Art, 1836 accompanied by an engraving (by Edward Goodall).[11]
Notes
- ^ Howard at the National Portrait Gallery
- ^ a b c d e f Graves and Graham-Vernon, “Henry Howard”.
- ^ Now the site, at the bottom of the market, is occupied by the tower-block Kemp House
- ^ V&A[permanent dead link]
- ^ Grove, DNB Ist edn,
- ^ Picture of Temple, and others Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Royal Parks Official website Archived 2008-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rev. Joseph Nightingale, The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical and Descriptive, of each County, London 1815, pp. 111 (mentions Howard) to 115 (for mob)Digitized
- ^ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1823). "Original poetry". Literary Gazette, 1823. The Proprietors, Literary Gazette Office, Strand. p. 286.
- ^ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1827). "Fairies on the Sea Shore". The Troubadour, 1825. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. p. 292.
- ^ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1836). "Engraving and Poem". The Cabinet of Modern Art, 1836. Whitaker & Co. p. 73.
Bibliography
- Graves, R. E. and Deborah Graham-Vernon. "Henry Howard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved on 8 February 2008.
External links
- 40 artworks by or after Henry Howard at the Art UK site
- Tate Britain
- A Goddess Iris Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- An engraving by William Finden of
The Cottage Girl. in The Amulet annual for 1827 with an attached poem by Felicia Hemans. - An engraving by Charles Rolls of Good Angels. with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon from The Keepsake annual for 1832.
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