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Last Name Howitt

Given Name Samuel William

alt. Names S. W. H. ; Samuel Howitt / pseudonym Giles Grinagain ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1756 or 1765 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Year died 1822

Place of death Somers Town, London

Father's occupation amateur painter Thomas Howitt from Dorset

Relatives brother-in-law Thomas Rowlandson, artist; great-granddaughter Mrs. Samuel Hastings

Education self-taught.

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for ornith. Walter Fawkes; William Bullocks; Howitt: A New Work of Animals & Groups of Animals 1811 & Angler's Manual 1808, British Preserve 1824/29; George Graves: Brit. Ornithology 1811-21

Patronage Free Society; Royal Academy, Samuel Goodenough; Bullock's Museum

Collaborators artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Rowlandson; Fawkes family

Techniques animal, landscape, and ornithological painting, oil, glass painting, watercolour, copperplate engraving, etching, aquatint, and drawing ; caricatures

Sample(s)

Archival sources Victoria & Albert Museum ; British Museum ;

Published sources AKL 75 2012: 146 ; ThB 17 1924: 588 ; Sawyer 1971: 141 ; Jackson 1989: 195 & 200 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/89 ## 366, 1015?, 2013-19 & 4416 ;

other Richmond, North Yorkshire. Drawing teacher at Ealing, London school.

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