Henry Room

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Henry Room (1802 – 1850) was an English portrait-painter, from an evangelical background in Birmingham.

Henry Room, self-portrait

Life

Room was in London in the late 1820s, sharing a studio with Peter Hollins.[1] He was a deacon in the church of John Morison.[2] He died in London on 27 August 1850, aged 48.[3]

Works

Engraving (1844) of the 1835 Parliamentary delegation from South Africa, led by John Philip by Richard Woodman after Henry Room

He had a reputation as a painter of portraits, and received commissions, some of his portraits being engraved. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826. He practised for some time at Birmingham. He painted a portrait of Thomas Clarkson for the Central Negro Emancipation Committee, and also two groups of the Interview of Queen Adelaide with the Madagascar Princes at Windsor, and The Caffre Chiefs' Examination before the House of Commons Committee. Many of his portraits were executed for the Evangelical Magazine.[3] He painted a series of medical men for Thomas Joseph Pettigrew's Biographical Memoirs (1839).[4]

References

  1. ↑ A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, Peter Hollins.
  2. ↑ The Baptist Magazine. 1850. p. 700. Retrieved 7 March 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1  "Room, Henry". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
  4. ↑ Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (1839). Biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians, surgeons, etc. who have contributed to the advancement of medical science. Whittaker and co. p. 40. Retrieved 7 March 2013. 
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