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See also: English painter, was See also: born on the 2nd of May 2816 in See also: London, where his See also: father carried on business as a See also: gun-maker
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He had some schooling at Bexley, and was not at first intended for the See also: artistic profession; but, developing a faculty in this See also: line, he entered in 1834 the See also: drawing class of Mr Sass, and in 1836 the school of the Royal See also: Academy
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His first exhibited picture appeared in 1837 at the See also: Suffolk Street gallery
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In 1838 he began exhibiting in the Academy, his subject being a " See also: Spanish Girl "; altogether he sent twenty-seven See also: works to this institution
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In 1848 he became an associate and in 186o a full member of the Academy: he had considerable means, apart from his profession
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In 1857 he took a leading See also: part in selecting and arranging the See also: modern paintings in the See also: Art-Treasures See also: Exhibition in Manchester
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His constitution being naturally frail, he went in 1853, with Dickens and See also: Wilkie See also: Collins, to See also: Italy for a See also: short trip, and in 1863 he visited See also: Algeria
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Here he benefited so far as his chronic See also: lung-disease was concerned; but exposure to a cold See also: wind while out See also: riding brought on an attack of asthma, from which he died on the 26th of See also: March 1863 at Algiers, near which city his remains were buried
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See also: Egg was a gifted and well-trained painter of genre, chiefly in the way of See also: historical anecdote, or of compositions from the poets and novelists
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Among his See also: principal pictures may be named: 1843, the " Introduction of See also: Sir Piercie Shaf ton and See also: Halbert Giendinning" (from See also: Scott's Monastery); 1846, "See also: Buckingham Rebuffed "; 1848, " See also: Queen See also: Elizabeth discovers she is no longer
See also: young "; 185o, " See also: Peter the See also: Great See also: sees Catharine for the first See also: time "; 1854, " See also: Charles I. raising the
See also: Standard at Nottingham " (a study); 1855, the " See also: Life and See also: Death of Buckingham "; 1857 and 1858, two subjects from Thackeray's Esmond; 1858, " Past and See also: Present, a triple picture of a faithless wife "; 1859, the " See also: Night before See also: Naseby "; 186o, his last exhibited See also: work, the See also: Dinner Scene from The Taming of the See also: Shrew
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The Tate Gallery contains one of his earlier pictures, Patricio entertaining two Ladies, from the Diable boiteux; it was painted in 2844
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Egg was rather below the See also: middle height, with dark hair and a handsome well-formed face; the See also: head of Peter the Great (in the picture of Peter and Catharine, which may be regarded as his best work, along with the Life and Death of Buckingham) was studied, but of course considerably modified, from his own countenance
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He was manly, kind-hearted, pleasant, and very genial and serviceable amongSee also: brother-artists; social and com-panionable, but holding mainly aloof from fashionable circles
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As an actor he had uncommon talent
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He appeared among Dickens's See also: company of amateurs in 2852 in See also: Lord See also: Lytton's See also: comedy Not so See also: Bad as we Seem, and afterwards in Wilkie Collins's Frozen Deep, playing the humorous part of See also: Job Want
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