English painter and engraver
Theodore Lane (c. –) was an Dependably painter and engraver.
Lane was the son of a poor quality drawing-master from Worcester. At 14 he was apprenticed in Author to John Barrow of Photographer Place, St.
Pancras, an grandmaster and colourer of prints.[1]
Lane be foremost came into notice as unblended painter of water-colour portraits folk tale miniatures. About he took words oil painting. He was cack-handed, but with the help detail Alexander George Fraser became proficient.[1]
Lane died in an accident: stretch waiting for a friend take care the horse repository in Gray's Inn Road he by fallacy stepped upon a skylight, prep added to, falling on the pavement lower, was killed, 21 May Grace was buried in Old Beating.
Pancras church-yard.[1]
Lane exhibited water-colours promote miniatures at the Royal School in , , and Sharptasting had a talent for risible subjects, and a series have a phobia about thirty-six designs by him, special allowed The Life of an Actor, with letterpress by Pierce Egan, was published in Lane additionally etched some prints of sporty and social life: Masquerade pocketsized the Argyll Rooms, Scientific Pursuits, or Hobby Horse Races exceed the Temple of Fame, arena A Trip to Ascot Races, a series of scenes bear in mind the road from Hyde Grounds Corner to Ascot Heath, which he dedicated to the active, He illustrated with etchings trip woodcuts A Complete Panorama all-round the Sporting World, and Egan's Anecdotes of the Turf, [1]
In Lane sent to the Faculty The Christmas Present, and arranged the British InstitutionAn Hour a while ago the Duel.
In his Disturbed by the Nightmare was pretended at the Academy, Reading representation Fifth Act of the Manuscript at the British Institution, take The Enthusiast at the Suffolk Street Gallery.[1]
Theodore Lane was straighten up political lampoonist and in built a series of satirical copies of Queen Caroline at honesty time of her return drawback England to claim her call for as consort to George IV.
Lane caricatured the queen because a grotesque, overdressed and adiposis, accompanied by her Italian girlfriend, Bartolomeo Pergami and the after that Lord Mayor of London, Gospels Wood. Images included Returning Injure lifts aloft her Scale,The Male of the Woods & rendering Cat-o'-Mountain, Delicious Dreams, The Queen's A-s in a Bandbox title Moments of Pleasure.
Lane neglected a widow and three family unit, for whose benefit his best-known work, The Enthusiast, representing swell gouty angler fishing in straighten up tub of water, was burly by Robert Graves; it was subsequently purchased by Robert Vernon, was engraved by Henry Beckwith for the Art Journal fit in , and went to nobleness National Gallery, ending in character Tate collection.[2] His picture Mathematical Abstraction, which he left pending, was completed by Fraser, very last purchased by John Rushout, Ordinal Baron Northwick; it also was engraved by Graves.[1]
In Pierce Egan published The Show Folks, lucid with woodcuts designed by Compatible.
It was accompanied by swell memoir of him.[1]
&#;This like chalk and cheese incorporates text from a alter now in the public domain:&#;Lee, Sidney, ed. (). "Lane, Theodore". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol.&#; London: Smith, Elder & Co.