William Henry Pyne
William Henry Pyne (1769 in London – 29 May 1843 in London) was an English writer, illustrator and painter, who also wrote under the name of Ephraim Hardcastle.[1] He trained at the drawing academy of Henry Pars in London. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and watercolour. Pyne was one of the founders of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.[2]
Works
Pyne's book The Costume of Great Britain, including 60 paintings of professional and working-class men and women and scenes from everyday life (published by William Miller in 1805),[3] attracted the attention of the publisher Rudolph Ackermann, and Pyne was to engrave and write for many of his projects, including writing the text for the first two volumes of the very successful 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 100 engravings of the exteriors and interior decorations and furnishings of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace and Hampton Court Palace. It caused financial difficulties for him – he was imprisoned for debt more than once,[4] and died a poor man in 1843.[5]
As Ephraim Hardcastle, he wrote gossipy columns on art for the Literary Gazette, which in 1824 were collected in 2 volumes as Wine and Walnuts, or After-dinner Chit-chat. He wrote for other journals, and in 1825 published a novel The Twenty-ninth of May, or Rare Doings at the Restoration.[6]
Pyne's watercolours are in major museum collections, such as the Royal Collection and the British Museum. His son, George Pyne (1800–01 - 1884), was also a painter in watercolour, writer on drawing and perspective.[7][better source needed]
Gallery
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An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration, 1796–1808
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St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle from the Altar, from Pyne's Royal Residences, 1819.
References
- ↑ Ford. The pseudonym was revived, some 150 years later, by Nigel Dempster and others for a column in the Daily Mail
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- ↑ Pyne, William H. (1989) Pyne's British Costumes. Poole: Westminster Editions ISBN 1-872128-04-1 (a facsimile of the 1805 edition)
- ↑ Ford
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Further reading
- Ford, John. "Pyne, William Henry." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 27 June 2015, subscription required
- Johnson, W. Noel. "The Wisdom an Humour of W. H. Pyne," The Manchester Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, No. 93, 1905.
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