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CATTERMOLE, GEORGE (1800-1868)

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CATTERMOLE, See also:GEORGE (1800-1868) , See also:English painter, chiefly in See also:water-See also:colours, was See also:born at Dickleburgh, near See also:Diss, See also:Norfolk, in See also:August 1800. At the See also:age of sixteen he began working as an architectural and topographical draughtsman; afterwards he contributed designs to be engraved in the annuals then so popular; thence he progressed into water-See also:colour See also:painting, becoming an See also:associate of the Water-Colour Society in 1822, and a full member in 1833. In 185o he withdrew from active connexion with this society, and took to painting in oil. His most fertile See also:period was between 1833 and 185o. At the See also:Paris See also:exhibition of 1855 he received one of the five first-class See also:gold medals awarded to See also:British painters. He also enjoyed professional honours in See also:Amsterdam and in See also:Belgium. He died on the 24th of See also:July 1868. Among his leading See also:works are " The See also:Murder of the See also:Bishop of See also:Liege " (15th See also:century), " The Armourer See also:relating the See also:Story of the See also:Sword," " The Assassination of the See also:Regent See also:Murray by See also:Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh," and (in oil) "A Terrible See also:Secret." He was largely employed by publishers, illustrating the Waverley Novels and the See also:Historical See also:Annual of his See also:brother the Rev. See also:Richard Cattermole (his scenes from the See also:wars of Cavaliers and Roundheads in this See also:series are among his best engraved works), and many other volumes besides. Cattermole was a painter of no inconsiderable gifts, and of See also:great facility in picturesque resource; he was defective in solidity of See also:form and texture, and in See also:realism or richness of colour. He excelled in rendering scenes of See also:chivalry, of medievalism, and generally of the romantic aspects of the past.

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