Havell family

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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 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, d. 1812?) and Robert Havell the Elder (engraver and publisher, 1760-1832); along with their nephew Daniel Havell (engraver, d. 1826?).

[edit] Luke Havell

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 1812? Reading.
  • William Havell: landscape painter in watercolours and oils; frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy; traveled and painted in China, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Italy. Born 1782 Reading; died 1857 Kensington.
  • Edmund Havell: drawing master and painter; exhibited at the Royal Academy. Born 1785 Reading; married Maria Binfield; died 1864.
    • Edmund Havell junior: genre and portrait painter, and lithographer; frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy. Born 1819 Reading; died 1899 London.
      • Alfred Charles Havell: painter of horses and figurative subjects; exhibited at the Royal Academy. Born 1855 Chelsea; married Mary Marpole Lewis 1878; died 1928.
    • 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 (grand-daughter of Thomas Lord) 1855; died 1892 Caversham.
      • Ernest Binfield Havell: art writer and educator, especially in Indian art; superintendent of Government Art Schools at Madras (now Chennai) and Calcutta (now Kolkata). Born 1861 Reading.
      • 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; traveled and painted in India. Born 1799 Reading; married Mary Ann Hale 1825; died 1839? India.
  • Frederick James Havell: steel engraver in line and mezzotint. Born 1801 Reading.

[edit] References

• Bryan, Michael [1903–04] (1926–34). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. Bell.
• Hunnisett, Basil (1980). A Dictionary of British Steel Engravers. F. Lewis. ISBN 0-85317-067-3.
• Mallalieu, H. L. (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-036-1.
• Turner, Jane (editor) (1996). The Dictionary Of Art. Grove. ISBN 1-884446-00-0.
• Williams, George Alfred (1916). "Robert Havell, Junior, Engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America". The Print-Collector's Quarterly VI (2): 226–257.
• Wood, Christopher (1995). Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-171-6.

[edit] External links

• Havell. artnet - The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
• William Havell. artnet - The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
• Robert Havell, jr. artnet - The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
• A Handbook to Agra and the Taj by E. B. Havell. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
• On the Sublime by Longinus (translator H. L. Havell). Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
• Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. Havell. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.
• Stories from Thucydides by H. L. Havell. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved on 2006-06-12.