Robert Braithwaite Martineau
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Robert Braithwaite Martineau (19 January 1826 – 13 February 1869)Victorian painter.
Life
Martineau was the son of Elizabeth Batty and Philip Martineau, a Master in Chancery. Through his mother, he was the grandson of Robert Batty, M.D. (1763–1849), physician and amateur painter.[2]
Martineau attended Colfes school for a few years at the age of 15. He first trained as a lawyer and later entered the
Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt and once shared a studio with him. He died at the age of 43. In 1865, he married Maria Wheeler and had two children with her.[1]
His most famous painting, Tate Gallery in London. Other paintings were bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and Liverpool Art Gallery by his daughter Helen. Other less well known paintings include Kit's First Writing Lesson and Picciola.[1]
Martineau was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
Works
- Picciola, Tate, 1853.
- The Spelling Lesson, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, circa 1856.
Notes
References
- Cust, Lionel Henry (1893). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Bibliography
- Christoph Newall, La Leçon d'orthographe, La Revue du Musée d'Orsay, n° 21 autommne 2005, p. 20-25.
External links
- 17 artworks by or after Robert Braithwaite Martineau at the Art UK site
- 18 artworks at Art Renewal Center
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