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See also:AUGUSTUS See also:LEOPOLD See also:EGG (1816-1863)
, 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 See also:Bexley, and was not at first intended for the See also:artistic profession; but, developing a See also: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 See also:Street See also: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 See also: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 See also:Manchester
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His constitution being naturally frail, he went in 1853, with See also: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 See also:cold See also:wind while out See also:riding brought on an attack of See also:asthma, from which he died on the 26th of See also: He was manly, See also:kind-hearted, pleasant, and very genial and serviceable among See also:brother-artists; social and com-panionable, but holding mainly aloof from fashionable circles . As an actor he had uncommon See also:talent . 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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