biografía de Francis Samuel MARRYAT (1826-1855)

Lugar de nacimiento: London, England

Lugar de defunción: London

Direcciones: San Fran., CA, 1850-53

Profesión: Topographical artist

Obra: Amon Carter Mus., Fort Worth, TX; Kahn Collection at the Oakland (CA) Mus.

Comentarios: "Frank" Marryat, son of the English novelist, Captain Frederick Marryat, served in the British Royal Navy from 1843 to 1849. In the fall of 1849 he came to California, settled in San Francisco and spent the next several years as a miner, innkeeper, author, and actor. In 1850 he made seven small watercolor views of San Francisco (these were shown in NYC in 1930) and in 1851 drew a view of S.F. for exhibition in London. He returned to England in the spring of 1852 but was back in California by the fall and stayed another year before going back to England for the last time. P&H Samuels report that his premature death was from yellow fever, contracted in 1853 on his honeymoon to San Francisco. In the year of his death Marryat published Mountains and Molehills, an account of California illustrated with engravings after the author's sketches. Others of his sketches were lithographed by Hanharts of London.

Fuentes: G&W; Marryat, Mountains and Molehills; Van Nostrand and Coulter, California Pictorial, 148-49; Howell, "Pictorial Californiana," 63; Jackson, Gold Rush Album, repros. More recently, see P&H Samuels, 304.