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ENGLEHEART, GEORGE (1752-1829)

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ENGLEHEART, See also:GEORGE (1752-1829) , See also:English See also:miniature painter, the See also:great See also:rival of See also:Richard See also:Cosway, was See also:born at See also:Kew in See also:October 1752, and received his See also:artistic training first under George Barret, R.A., and then under See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds. He started on his own See also:account in 1773, and exhibited in that See also:year at the Royal See also:Academy. He continued the active pursuit of his profession down to 1813, when he retired, and his See also:fee-See also:book, still in existence, records the names of his sitters, and the amount paid for each portrait, proving that he painted 4853 miniatures during that See also:period of See also:thirty-nine years, and that his professional income for many years exceeded £1200 a year. During the greater See also:part of his See also:life he resided in See also:Hertford See also:Street, Mayfair, where he lived till he retired. He died at See also:Blackheath in 1829, and was buried at Kew. He painted George III. twenty-five times, and had a very extensive circle of patrons, comprising nearly all the important persons connected with the See also:court. He made careful copies in miniature of many of the famous paintings executed by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in some cases these constitute the only See also:information we possess respecting portraits by Sir Joshua that are now missing. His fee-book, See also:colours, appliances and a large collection of his miniatures still remain in the See also:possession of his descendants. His See also:nephew, See also:JOHN See also:COX DILLMAN ENGLEHEART (1784-1862), also a miniature painter, entered George Engleheart's studio when he was but fourteen years of See also:age. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 18o1, and sent in altogether 157 See also:works. He was a See also:man of substantial means, and in his See also:time a very popular painter, but his See also:health See also:broke down when he was See also:forty-four years old, and he had to relinquish the pursuit of his profession. He lived at Tunbridge See also:Wells for some years and died there in 1862.

See George Engleheart, by G. C. See also:

Williamson and H. L. D. Engle-See also:heart .(1902). (G. C.

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