FREDERICK YEATES

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• FREDERICK YEATES HURLSTONE (1800-1869)

HURLSTONE (1800-1869)  , English painter, was born in London, his father being a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle . His grand-uncle, Richard Hurlstone, had been a well-known portrait-painter a generation earlier . F . Y . Hurlstone studied under Sir W . Beechey, Sir T . Lawrence and B . R . Haydon, and in 182o became a student at the Royal Academy, where he soon began to exhibit . In 1823 he won the Academy's gold medal for historical painting . In 1831 he was elected to the Society of British Artists, of which in 1835 he became president; it was to their exhibitions that he sent most of his pictures, as he became a pronounced critic of the management of the Academy . He died in London on the loth of June 1869 .

His historical paintings and portraits were very numerous . Some of the most representative are " A Venetian

Page " (1824), The Enchantress Armida " (1831), " Eros " (1836), " Prisoner of Chillon " (18J7), " Girl of Sorrento " (1847), " Boabdil " (18J4), and his portrait of the 7th earl of Cavan (1833) .