John Byrne (English artist)

John Byrne (1786–1847) was an English painter and engraver.

View from the south side of King George's Sound, first published in Matthew Flinders' 1814 A voyage to Terra Australis. After a painting by William Westall.

Life

He was the only son of engraver William Byrne and followed his father's profession in the arts.[1] After his father's death in 1805, he moved to 54 John Street, London. He provided sets of engravings for Charles Wild's works on cathedrals.[2]

Byrne around 1818 was drawing-master at Eton College.[2] He subsequently concentrated on landscape painting in watercolours; his sister Mary and her son were also painters.

His work is included in Cadell and Davies' Britannia depicta. He sent pictures to the exhibitions of the Water-Colour Society and the Royal Academy; and spent some years (about 1832-37) in Italy. He died in 1847. In the Victoria and Albert Museum are:[1]

The Ferry at Twickenham (exhibited in 1830).
Italian Landscape, with Monastery.

Matlock church: engraving by John and Letitia Byrne after a painting by Joseph Farington. Published in 1817 in Britannia Depicta, Part VI, Derbyshire

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References

Bryan, Michael; Robert Edmund Graves, Sir Walter Armstrong (1886). "Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical". Internet Archive (3 ed.). London: G. Bell & Sons. p. 206. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
Clayton, Timothy; McConnell, Anita. "Byrne family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65026. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Byrne, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 206.

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[Bryan-1] Bryan, Michael; Robert Edmund Graves, Sir Walter Armstrong (1886). "Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical". Internet Archive (3 ed.). London: G. Bell & Sons. p. 206. Retrieved 30 April 2017.

[ODNB-2] Clayton, Timothy; McConnell, Anita. "Byrne family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65026. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)