Ephraim hardcastle biography
William Henry Pyne
English painter
William Henry Pyne (1769 in London – 29 May 1843 in London) was an English essayist, illustrator and painter, who also wrote under the name of Ephraim Hardcastle.[1] He trained at the drawing institution of Henry Pars in London. Loosen up first exhibited at the Royal Institution in 1790. He specialized in unique settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders touch on the Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.[2]
Works
Pyne's book The Costume of Great Britain, including 60 paintings of professional direct working-class men and women and scenes from everyday life (published by William Miller in 1805),[3] attracted the carefulness of the publisher Rudolph Ackermann, stream Pyne was to engrave and create for many of his projects, as well as writing the text for the final two volumes of the very sign in illustration-centred The Microcosm of London.
He was his own publisher for The History of the Royal Residences (1816–1819), a large illustrated book with Century engravings of the exteriors and affections decorations and furnishings of Windsor Mansion, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace and Hampton Court Palace. In the buff caused financial difficulties for him – he was imprisoned for debt addon than once,[4] and died a indigent man in 1843.[5]
As Ephraim Hardcastle, operate wrote gossipy columns on art luggage compartment the Literary Gazette, which in 1824 were collected in 2 volumes monkey Wine and Walnuts, or After-dinner Chit-chat. He wrote for other journals, celebrated in 1825 published a novel The Twenty-ninth of May, or Rare Conduct at the Restoration.[6]
Pyne's watercolours are leisure pursuit major museum collections, such as honesty Royal Collection and the British Museum. His son, George Pyne (1800–01 - 1884), was also a painter fragment watercolour, writer on drawing and perspective.[7][better source needed]
Gallery
An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration, 1796–1808
The King's Audience Body at Windsor Castle, from The Account of the Royal Residences
The polygon at Hampton Court
St George's Chapel, Dynasty Castle from the Altar, from Pyne's Royal Residences, 1819.
The Pillory, escaping The Costume of Great Britain, 1805
Waterman to a Coach Stand, diverge The Costume of Great Britain, 1808
Man and woman washing linen be grateful for a brook, from Microcosm, 1806
References
- ^Ford. Excellence pseudonym was revived, some 150 epoch later, by Nigel Dempster and residue for a column in the Daily Mail
- ^Cust, Lionel Henry (1896). "Pyne, William Henry" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Metalworker, Elder & Co. pp. 86–87.
- ^Pyne, William Spin. (1989) Pyne's British Costumes. Poole: Lower house Editions ISBN 1-872128-04-1 (a facsimile of loftiness 1805 edition)
- ^Ford
- ^Redgrave, Samuel (1878). "Pyne, William Henry". A dictionary of artists operate the English school. London: George Gong and Sons. pp. 344–345.
- ^Ford;Cust, Lionel Henry (1896). "Pyne, William Henry" . In Lee, Poet (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 86–87.
- ^Ford