Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. George Cattermole--Joseph Nash--James Duffield Harding--William Evans (of Eton)--George Chambers--John William Wright--James Holland--Octavius Oakley--John Burgess--Samuel Jackson--Charles Branwhite--Charles Bentley--Arthur Glennie--James W. Whittaker--David Cox, Junior--John Callow--William James Mullet--Frank Stone, A.Ii.A.--Foreign Artists--Egron S. Lundgren--Otto Weber. Though trained among the topographers, to whom we have briefly referred in our last chapter, George Cattermole, born at Dickleburgh, near Diss, in August, 1800, early marked out for himself an independent career and preserved a strong and distinct individuality among the rising water-colour men of his time. He was the youngest of a family of seven. His elder brother, Richard, who became a dignitary of the church, and was in turn the rector of St. Martin's in the Fields, and of Little Marlow, Bucks, was also at first a painter and an exhibitor in London as early as 1814. The younger brother was firstemployed in drawing for Britton's English Cathedrals, working with the elder Pugin, and in 1822 was elected an associate exhibitor of the Old Water-Colour Society. In 1830 he travelled into Scotland in order to visit the localities described by Scott in his novels, which subsequently were illustrated by Cattermole and rendered his art so widely known. For many years he was a contributor to the Water-Colour Society's exhibitions, but he did not become a member until 1833, from which time he sent numerous works to their gallery, until 1850, when he seceded from the society, and resigned his membership in 1852. His knowledge of architecture and costume was turned to good account in his pictures, which were chiefly drawn from romantic subjects. He painted the...
