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HAYTER, SIR GEORGE (1792–1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 114 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAYTER, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE (1792–1871) , See also:English painter, was the son of a popular See also:drawing-See also:master and teacher of See also:perspective who published a well-known introduction to perspective and other See also:works. He was See also:born in See also:London, and in his See also:early youth went to See also:sea. He afterwards studied in the Royal See also:Academy, became a See also:miniature-painter, and was appointed in 1816 miniature-painter to the princess See also:Charlotte. He passed some. years in See also:Italy, more especially in See also:Rome, between 1816 and 1831, returned to London in the last-named See also:year, resumed portrait-See also:painting, now chiefly in oil-See also:colour, executed many likenesses of the royal See also:family, and attained such a reputation for finish and refinement in his See also:work that he received the See also:appointment of See also:principal painter to See also:Queen See also:Victoria and teacher of drawing to the princesses. In 1842 he was knighted. He painted various works on a large See also:scale of a public and semi-See also:historical See also:character, but essentially works of See also:portraiture; such as " The Trial of Queen See also:Caroline " (189 likenesses), " The See also:Meeting of the First Reformed See also:Parliament," now in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery, Queen Victoria taking the See also:Coronation See also:Oath " (accounted his finest See also:production), " The See also:Marriage of the Queen," and the " Trial of See also:Lord See also:William See also:Russell." The See also:artistic merits of Hayter's works are not, however, such as to preserve to him with posterity an amount of See also:prestige corresponding to that which See also:court patronage procured him. He is not to be confounded with a contemporary artist, See also:John Hayter, who produced illustrations for the See also:Book of Beauty, &c.

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