biografía de Charles II CATTON (1756-1819)

Lugar de nacimiento: London

Lugar de defunción: New Paltz, NY

Direcciones: New Paltz, NY, c.1802-19

Profesión: Landscape and animal painter

Estudios: Charles Catton, Sr.

Exposiciones: R A (from 1776 to 1800); American Academy (1816, 1818-1822 and 1827)

Comentarios: A pupil of his father, who was a Royal Academician and heraldic painter to George III, the younger Charles Catton in 1789 published a set of 36 Animals Drawn from Nature, and Engraved in Acquatinta." He emigrated to America c. 1802. He is said to have painted little after his arrival in America, but was exhibited frequently at the American Academy.

Fuentes: G&W; DNB; obit., N.Y. Commercial Advertiser, May 5, 1819 (citation courtesy of Miss E. Marie Becker); Thieme-Becker; Edwards, Anecdotes of Painters (1808), 260; Graves, Dictionary; Dunlap, History, II, 208-11; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Flexner, The Light of Distant Skies, biblio., 259."