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Havell family

The Havell family of Reading, Berkshire, England, included a number of notable engravers, etchers and painters, as well as writers, publishers, educators, and musicians. In particular, members of this family were among the foremost practitioners of aquatint; and had a long association with Indian art and culture. The family first came to notice through the brothers Luke Havell (drawing master, 1752?–1810) and Robert Havell the Elder (engraver and publisher, 1769–1832); along with their nephew Daniel Havell (engraver, 1786–1822).

Luke Havell

Luke Havell, born 1752,[1] was lifted from a future life as a farmhand when a local squire recognised his talents and apprenticed him to a signwriter named Ayliffe Cole, from 1762 to 1764.[2] He was appointed drawing-master at Reading Grammar School, where he served under the headmastership of Richard Valpy, and also had a small print shop in the town. He married Charlotte Phillips in 1778, and together they had fourteen children, including the painter William Havell (1782–1857), and Edmund Havell (1785–1864) who took on the print shop, and succeeded his father as drawing master at the school.

Robert Havell Sr.

 
Robert Havell Jr.'s shop, The Zoological Gallery, at 77 Oxford Street, London (opened in 1831)

Robert Havell Sr. (29 December 1769 – 21 November 1832) was the proprietor of a printing and engraving shop, with an ancillary business in natural history artefacts, in the Marylebone district of London, in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Robert was the brother of Luke Havell, and named as such in Luke's will;[1][3] another brother, William, a butcher, was buried in Reading in 1832.[4] In February 1793 Robert married Lydia Miller Phillips at St Sepulchre church in London;[5] their eldest son Robert was born in Reading in December the same year.

By 1801 Havell was established at 3 Chapel Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in London, giving his occupation as "artist".[1] The business, known from 1818 to 1825 as Havell and Son, became well known for its expertise in aquatint engraving and colouring.

In 1824, following the marriage of his son, Robert moved the business to 79 Newman Street,[1] where John James Audubon approached him in 1827 to engrave a portfolio of 240 drawings he had brought with him from America. Recognizing that without the help of another expert engraver he would not be able to take on a work of this magnitude, Robert Havell Sr. contacted his son, Robert Havell Jr., who had quarrelled with his father and left London in an attempt to launch an independent artistic career. Robert Havell Jr. consented to reestablish the partnership with his father and agreed to engrave the plates of Audubon's drawings, with Robert Sr. supervising their printing and colouring. The collaboration between father and son continued in this way until Robert Havell Sr.'s retirement in 1828.[6]

Robert died in 1832, and was buried at the Old St. Pancras Church graveyard in London.

Daniel Havell

In older texts (and in the current Oxford Dictionary of National Biography), Daniel Havell is often claimed as the father of Robert (and sometimes of Luke as well);[7] but more recent references generally place him as born in 1785, the son of Luke's brother Thomas, also a painter, who was born in 1762.[1] Daniel moved to London, and set up in partnership as an aquatint engraver with Robert Havell. Together they published aquatints of Twenty Four Views Taken in St. Helena (1809–10) after pictures by Henry Salt, and Twelve Picturesque Views of the River Thames (1812) from watercolours by William Havell. But the partnership did not last, and soon Daniel was working independently, including plates for Rudolph Ackermann's History of Cambridge (1815) and Ackermann's history of various Public Schools including Eton, Winchester and Rugby (1816), as well as a celebrated view of St Paul's Cathedral (1818) and various other London landmarks for Ackermann's Repository of Arts. Other subjects included topographical views of Devon, and of North Wales; and views of naval engagements. Havell's final work was for E.W. Brayley's Historical and descriptive accounts of the theatres of London (1826) "illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved by the late Daniel Havell."

The Daniel Havell who was the son of Thomas Havell was baptised on 30 November 1786 at St Mary's, Reading; married Maria Alice Wilmot (1796-1873), daughter of Dr. Samuel and Martha (née Russell) Wilmot on 5 June 1813 at St James's in Paddington; and was buried on 19 May 1822 at Kingston upon Thames, his occupation given as "artist".[8] His widow married artist John Gendall (1790-1865).

Robert Havell Jr.

 
Robert Havell Jr., 1845
 
The gravesite of Robert Havell Jr.

Robert Havell Jr. (25 November 1793 – 11 November 1878) was the principal engraver of Audubon's Birds of America, seen in America as "perhaps the most significant natural history publication of all time". His aquatint engraving of all but the first ten plates of John James Audubon's Birds of America is now recognised as a significant artistic achievement in its own right and an essential component of the success of Birds of America. He and Audubon became close friends and associates during their lengthy collaboration. In 1839 Havell went to America at the invitation of Audubon, first residing in Brooklyn. He settled in Ossining on the Hudson River and later moved to Tarrytown, New York, living there from 1857 through his remaining years. Although Havell continued to work in aquatint and engraving (primarily city panoramas), he devoted most of his attention to painting the countryside of the Hudson River valley. He travelled frequently in a homemade horse-drawn trailer, sketching and taking notes and translating his sketches into larger oils. Robert Havell Jr. is considered a member of the Hudson River School of American painters.

He died in 1878 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow.

Luke Havell's descendants

The following list of Luke Havell's descendants is incomplete; covering only those referenced in published sources.

  • Luke Havell: drawing master and painter. Born Reading; married Charlotte Phillips 1778; died 1810 Reading.
    • William Havell: landscape painter in watercolours and oils; frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy; travelled and painted in China, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Italy. Born 1782 Reading; died 1857 Kensington.[9][10][11][12][13]
    • Edmund Havell: drawing master and painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy. Born 1785 Reading; married Maria Binfield; died 1864.[9][12]
      • Edmund Havell junior: genre and portrait painter, and lithographer; frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy. Queen Victoria's official portraitist. Came to America and exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia. Born 1819 Reading; died 1899 London.[9][12][13]
        • Alfred Charles Havell: painter of horses and figurative subjects; exhibited at the Royal Academy. Born 1855 Chelsea; married Mary Marpole Lewis 1878; died 1928.[13]
      • Susannah Maria Havell: musician and music teacher, working with her aunt the minor composer Hannah Rampton Binfield. Born 1822 Reading.
      • Charles Richard(s) Havell: landscape painter, exhibited at the Royal Academy. Born 1828 Reading; married Charlotte Amelia Lord (granddaughter of Thomas Lord) 1855; died 1892 Caversham.[9][12][13]
        • Ernest Binfield Havell: art writer and educator, especially in Indian art; superintendent of Government Art Schools at Madras (now Chennai) and Calcutta (now Kolkata). With Abanindranath Tagore, he established the Bengal school of art. Born 1861 Reading; died 1934 Oxford.[11][14]
        • Herbert Lord Havell: classicist and writer; his posthumously published Republican Rome (1914) is still in print. Born 1863 Reading; died 1913 Oxford.
    • Charles Havell: painter and drawing master at the Reading School. Born 1792 Reading; married Thirza Cheverton 1824.
    • Henry Havell: heraldic painter; "decorator to the King" (according to Bryan). Born 1796 Reading; married Elizabeth Sims 1821; emigrated to the United States 1829.
    • George Havell: painter; travelled and painted in India. Born 1799 Reading; married Mary Ann Hale 1825; died 1839? India.
    • Frederick James Havell: steel engraver in line and mezzotint and made experiments in photography. Born 1801 Reading.[9][15]
    • Charles Cedric Havell. Grandson of Charles Richard Havell. His father, Charles G Havell was a doctor at Felixstowe. His mother Cicely Ridpath was a model for Louise Jopling the artist. Charles Cedric went to Rugby School, Warwickshire and then Pembroke College, Cambridge University. While at Rugby he enthusiastically participated in the Officer Training Corps. In November 1914 he joined the Territorial Army and served as an officer in the Suffolk Regiment, achieving the rank of captain. In 1915 he was awarded the Military Cross for the brave command of a trench mortar position under extreme conditions. After the war he joined the Imperial Tobacco Company, where he eventually became a director. Charles Havell also sat on a judicial panel which heard cases concerning commercial practice.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Charles Lane (1978), Sporting Aquatints and their Engravers: 1775–1820. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, ISBN 0-85317-058-4. pp.45 et seq.
  2. ^ Lucy Peltz (2004), "Havell family", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67016
  3. ^ Will of Luke Havell, transcription on a website of John K. Schlosser.
  4. ^ Leaves from Robert Havell Sr.'s family bible; published in George F. Tudor Sherwood (1907), The Pedigree Register, vol 1. London: Society of Genealogists, p. 354; William Havell, buried 21 December 1832, St Lawrence, Reading
  5. ^ Parish record indexes, at familysearch.org
  6. ^ Notice of dissolution of partnership, The London Gazette, No. 18482, p. 1253 (27 June 1828)
  7. ^ e.g. Prideaux (1909), p. 265; Williams (1916); ODNB (2004). Benezit Dictionary of Artists (2006) has Daniel and Robert as brothers.
    The Grove Dictionary of Art (1999/2006) hedges, writing that "According to their descendants, Robert was undeniably Daniel's son, though there is evidence to suggest that he may have been his uncle."
  8. ^ Parish record indexes at familysearch.org
  9. ^ a b c d e Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0199773787.
  10. ^ Bryan, Michael (1926–34) [1903–04]. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. Bell.
  11. ^ a b Turner, Jane, ed. (1996). The Dictionary of Art. Grove. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
  12. ^ a b c d Mallalieu, H. L. (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-036-1.
  13. ^ a b c d Wood, Christopher (1995). Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-171-6.
  14. ^ Havell, Ernest Binfield, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37520
  15. ^ Hunnisett, Basil (1980). A Dictionary of British Steel Engravers. F. Lewis. ISBN 0-85317-067-3.
  • Williams, George Alfred (1916). "Robert Havell, Junior, Engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America". The Print-Collector's Quarterly. VI (2): 226–257.
  • Goddu, Joseph (November 2002). . Magazine Antiques. Archived from the original on 12 January 2007.

External links

  • "Havell". artnet – The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • "William Havell". artnet – The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • "Robert Havell Jr". artnet – The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • A Handbook to Agra and the Taj by E. B. Havell. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • On the Sublime by Longinus (translator H. L. Havell). Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. Havell. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • Stories from Thucydides by H. L. Havell. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 12 June 2006.
  • An engraving by Frederick James Havell for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 of   Hurdwar—The Gate of Vishnoo. painted by James Duffield Harding with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

havell, family, reading, berkshire, england, included, number, notable, engravers, etchers, painters, well, writers, publishers, educators, musicians, particular, members, this, family, were, among, foremost, practitioners, aquatint, long, association, with, i. The Havell family of Reading Berkshire England included a number of notable engravers etchers and painters as well as writers publishers educators and musicians In particular members of this family were among the foremost practitioners of aquatint and had a long association with Indian art and culture The family first came to notice through the brothers Luke Havell drawing master 1752 1810 and Robert Havell the Elder engraver and publisher 1769 1832 along with their nephew Daniel Havell engraver 1786 1822 Contents 1 Luke Havell 2 Robert Havell Sr 3 Daniel Havell 4 Robert Havell Jr 5 Luke Havell s descendants 6 References 7 External linksLuke Havell EditLuke Havell born 1752 1 was lifted from a future life as a farmhand when a local squire recognised his talents and apprenticed him to a signwriter named Ayliffe Cole from 1762 to 1764 2 He was appointed drawing master at Reading Grammar School where he served under the headmastership of Richard Valpy and also had a small print shop in the town He married Charlotte Phillips in 1778 and together they had fourteen children including the painter William Havell 1782 1857 and Edmund Havell 1785 1864 who took on the print shop and succeeded his father as drawing master at the school Robert Havell Sr Edit Robert Havell Jr s shop The Zoological Gallery at 77 Oxford Street London opened in 1831 Robert Havell Sr 29 December 1769 21 November 1832 was the proprietor of a printing and engraving shop with an ancillary business in natural history artefacts in the Marylebone district of London in the early decades of the nineteenth century Robert was the brother of Luke Havell and named as such in Luke s will 1 3 another brother William a butcher was buried in Reading in 1832 4 In February 1793 Robert married Lydia Miller Phillips at St Sepulchre church in London 5 their eldest son Robert was born in Reading in December the same year By 1801 Havell was established at 3 Chapel Street off Tottenham Court Road in London giving his occupation as artist 1 The business known from 1818 to 1825 as Havell and Son became well known for its expertise in aquatint engraving and colouring In 1824 following the marriage of his son Robert moved the business to 79 Newman Street 1 where John James Audubon approached him in 1827 to engrave a portfolio of 240 drawings he had brought with him from America Recognizing that without the help of another expert engraver he would not be able to take on a work of this magnitude Robert Havell Sr contacted his son Robert Havell Jr who had quarrelled with his father and left London in an attempt to launch an independent artistic career Robert Havell Jr consented to reestablish the partnership with his father and agreed to engrave the plates of Audubon s drawings with Robert Sr supervising their printing and colouring The collaboration between father and son continued in this way until Robert Havell Sr s retirement in 1828 6 Robert died in 1832 and was buried at the Old St Pancras Church graveyard in London Daniel Havell EditIn older texts and in the current Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Daniel Havell is often claimed as the father of Robert and sometimes of Luke as well 7 but more recent references generally place him as born in 1785 the son of Luke s brother Thomas also a painter who was born in 1762 1 Daniel moved to London and set up in partnership as an aquatint engraver with Robert Havell Together they published aquatints of Twenty Four Views Taken in St Helena 1809 10 after pictures by Henry Salt and Twelve Picturesque Views of the River Thames 1812 from watercolours by William Havell But the partnership did not last and soon Daniel was working independently including plates for Rudolph Ackermann s History of Cambridge 1815 and Ackermann s history of various Public Schools including Eton Winchester and Rugby 1816 as well as a celebrated view of St Paul s Cathedral 1818 and various other London landmarks for Ackermann s Repository of Arts Other subjects included topographical views of Devon and of North Wales and views of naval engagements Havell s final work was for E W Brayley s Historical and descriptive accounts of the theatres of London 1826 illustrated with a view of each theatre elegantly coloured drawn and engraved by the late Daniel Havell The Daniel Havell who was the son of Thomas Havell was baptised on 30 November 1786 at St Mary s Reading married Maria Alice Wilmot 1796 1873 daughter of Dr Samuel and Martha nee Russell Wilmot on 5 June 1813 at St James s in Paddington and was buried on 19 May 1822 at Kingston upon Thames his occupation given as artist 8 His widow married artist John Gendall 1790 1865 Robert Havell Jr Edit Robert Havell Jr 1845 The gravesite of Robert Havell Jr Robert Havell Jr 25 November 1793 11 November 1878 was the principal engraver of Audubon s Birds of America seen in America as perhaps the most significant natural history publication of all time His aquatint engraving of all but the first ten plates of John James Audubon s Birds of America is now recognised as a significant artistic achievement in its own right and an essential component of the success of Birds of America He and Audubon became close friends and associates during their lengthy collaboration In 1839 Havell went to America at the invitation of Audubon first residing in Brooklyn He settled in Ossining on the Hudson River and later moved to Tarrytown New York living there from 1857 through his remaining years Although Havell continued to work in aquatint and engraving primarily city panoramas he devoted most of his attention to painting the countryside of the Hudson River valley He travelled frequently in a homemade horse drawn trailer sketching and taking notes and translating his sketches into larger oils Robert Havell Jr is considered a member of the Hudson River School of American painters He died in 1878 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow Luke Havell s descendants EditThe following list of Luke Havell s descendants is incomplete covering only those referenced in published sources Luke Havell drawing master and painter Born Reading married Charlotte Phillips 1778 died 1810 Reading William Havell landscape painter in watercolours and oils frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy travelled and painted in China India Ceylon now Sri Lanka and Italy Born 1782 Reading died 1857 Kensington 9 10 11 12 13 Edmund Havell drawing master and painter exhibited at the Royal Academy Born 1785 Reading married Maria Binfield died 1864 9 12 Edmund Havell junior genre and portrait painter and lithographer frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy Queen Victoria s official portraitist Came to America and exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia Born 1819 Reading died 1899 London 9 12 13 Alfred Charles Havell painter of horses and figurative subjects exhibited at the Royal Academy Born 1855 Chelsea married Mary Marpole Lewis 1878 died 1928 13 Susannah Maria Havell musician and music teacher working with her aunt the minor composer Hannah Rampton Binfield Born 1822 Reading Charles Richard s Havell landscape painter exhibited at the Royal Academy Born 1828 Reading married Charlotte Amelia Lord granddaughter of Thomas Lord 1855 died 1892 Caversham 9 12 13 Ernest Binfield Havell art writer and educator especially in Indian art superintendent of Government Art Schools at Madras now Chennai and Calcutta now Kolkata With Abanindranath Tagore he established the Bengal school of art Born 1861 Reading died 1934 Oxford 11 14 Herbert Lord Havell classicist and writer his posthumously published Republican Rome 1914 is still in print Born 1863 Reading died 1913 Oxford Charles Havell painter and drawing master at the Reading School Born 1792 Reading married Thirza Cheverton 1824 Henry Havell heraldic painter decorator to the King according to Bryan Born 1796 Reading married Elizabeth Sims 1821 emigrated to the United States 1829 George Havell painter travelled and painted in India Born 1799 Reading married Mary Ann Hale 1825 died 1839 India Frederick James Havell steel engraver in line and mezzotint and made experiments in photography Born 1801 Reading 9 15 Charles Cedric Havell Grandson of Charles Richard Havell His father Charles G Havell was a doctor at Felixstowe His mother Cicely Ridpath was a model for Louise Jopling the artist Charles Cedric went to Rugby School Warwickshire and then Pembroke College Cambridge University While at Rugby he enthusiastically participated in the Officer Training Corps In November 1914 he joined the Territorial Army and served as an officer in the Suffolk Regiment achieving the rank of captain In 1915 he was awarded the Military Cross for the brave command of a trench mortar position under extreme conditions After the war he joined the Imperial Tobacco Company where he eventually became a director Charles Havell also sat on a judicial panel which heard cases concerning commercial practice References Edit a b c d e Charles Lane 1978 Sporting Aquatints and their Engravers 1775 1820 Leigh on Sea F Lewis ISBN 0 85317 058 4 pp 45 et seq Lucy Peltz 2004 Havell family Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi 10 1093 ref odnb 67016 Will of Luke Havell transcription on a website of John K Schlosser Leaves from Robert Havell Sr s family bible published in George F Tudor Sherwood 1907 The Pedigree Register vol 1 London Society of Genealogists p 354 William Havell buried 21 December 1832 St Lawrence Reading Parish record indexes at familysearch org Notice of dissolution of partnership The London Gazette No 18482 p 1253 27 June 1828 e g Prideaux 1909 p 265 Williams 1916 ODNB 2004 Benezit Dictionary of Artists 2006 has Daniel and Robert as brothers The Grove Dictionary of Art 1999 2006 hedges writing that According to their descendants Robert was undeniably Daniel s son though there is evidence to suggest that he may have been his uncle Parish record indexes at familysearch org a b c d e Benezit Dictionary of Artists Oxford University Press 2010 ISBN 978 0199773787 Bryan Michael 1926 34 1903 04 Bryan s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers Bell a b Turner Jane ed 1996 The Dictionary of Art Grove ISBN 1 884446 00 0 a b c d Mallalieu H L 1986 The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920 Antique Collectors Club ISBN 1 85149 036 1 a b c d Wood Christopher 1995 Victorian Painters Antique Collectors Club ISBN 1 85149 171 6 Havell Ernest Binfield Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi 10 1093 ref odnb 37520 Hunnisett Basil 1980 A Dictionary of British Steel Engravers F Lewis ISBN 0 85317 067 3 Williams George Alfred 1916 Robert Havell Junior Engraver of Audubon s The Birds of America The Print Collector s Quarterly VI 2 226 257 Goddu Joseph November 2002 The making of Audubon s The Birds of America Magazine Antiques Archived from the original on 12 January 2007 External links Edit Havell artnet The Grove Dictionary of Art Retrieved 12 June 2006 William Havell artnet The Grove Dictionary of Art Retrieved 12 June 2006 Robert Havell Jr artnet The Grove Dictionary of Art Retrieved 12 June 2006 A Handbook to Agra and the Taj by E B Havell Project Gutenberg Retrieved 12 June 2006 On the Sublime by Longinus translator H L Havell Project Gutenberg Retrieved 12 June 2006 Stories from the Odyssey by H L Havell Project Gutenberg Retrieved 12 June 2006 Stories from Thucydides by H L Havell Project Gutenberg Retrieved 12 June 2006 An engraving by Frederick James Havell for Fisher s Drawing Room Scrap Book 1838 of Hurdwar The Gate of Vishnoo painted by James Duffield Harding with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Havell family amp oldid 1143602467, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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