George Wilfred Anthony
George Wilfred Anthony (1810 – 14 November 1859) was an English landscape painter, art teacher and art critic.[1]
Life[]
He was born in Manchester, a cousin of Henry Mark Anthony, studied landscape painting under (1789–1833), and afterwards under J. V. Barber of Birmingham. He moved to Preston, then Wigan, finally settling in Manchester again as a teacher of art; he also ran a shop selling stationery. Between 1827 and 1859 he exhibited 60 pictures, mostly watercolour landscapes, at the Royal Manchester Institution (RMI).[1][2] He was also an art-critic for the Manchester Guardian, writing under the pseudonym "Gabriel Tinto". He was one of the executors of the will of the local painter Henry Liverseege.[3]
He died in Manchester on 14 November 1859, aged 49.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c The Art Journal, volume 6 p. 10 (Virtue, 1860).
- ^ Janet Wolff, John Seed. The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class p. 61 (Manchester University Press ND, 1988).
- ^ Axon, William E. A. Annals of Manchester p. 278 (Manchester, London: J. Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, 1886).
References[]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Anthony, George Wilfred". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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