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William Henry Pyne (1769 in

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– 29 May 1843 in London) was an English

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and

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, who also wrote under the name of Ephraim Hardcastle. He trained at the drawing academy of

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in London. He first exhibited at the

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in 1790. He specialized in picturesque settings including groups of people rendered in pen, ink and

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. Pyne was one of the founders of the

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in 1804.

Works

Pyne's book ''The Costume of Great Britain'', including 60 paintings of professional and working-class men and women and scenes from everyday life (published by William Miller in 1805), attracted the attention of the publisher

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, and Pyne was to engrave and write for many of his projects, including writing the text for the first two volumes of the very successful illustration-centred '' The Microcosm of London''. He was his own publisher for ''The History of the Royal Residences'' (1816–1819), a large illustrated book with 100 engravings of the exteriors and interior decorations and furnishings of

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and

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. It caused financial difficulties for him – he was imprisoned for debt more than once, and died a poor man in 1843. As Ephraim Hardcastle, he wrote gossipy columns on art for the ''

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'', which in 1824 were collected in 2 volumes as ''Wine and Walnuts, or After-dinner Chit-chat''. He wrote for other journals, and in 1825 published a novel ''The Twenty-ninth of May, or Rare Doings at the Restoration''. Pyne's watercolours are in major museum collections, such as the

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and the

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. His son, George Pyne (1800–01 - 1884), was also a painter in watercolour, writer on drawing and perspective.Ford

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File:An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration LCCN2003681692.tiff, ''An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration'', 1796–1808 File:Pyne KingsAudienceChamber WindsorCastle edited.jpg , The King's Audience Chamber at Windsor Castle, from ''The History of the Royal Residences'' File:Pynes-hamp1quadrangle.jpg , The quadrangle at Hampton Court File:St George's Chapel from the Altar, Windsor Castle, from Pyne's Royal Residences, 1819 - panteek pyn16-532.jpg,

St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...

from the Altar, from Pyne's ''Royal Residences'', 1819. File:William Pyne- The Costume of Great Britain (1805) - The Pillory.JPG , The Pillory, from ''The Costume of Great Britain'', 1805 File:Waterman to a Coach Stand, 1808.jpg , Waterman to a Coach Stand, from ''The Costume of Great Britain'', 1808 File:Laundry 1806.PNG , Man and woman washing linen in a brook, from ''Microcosm'', 1806

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*
History of Royal Residences by W. H. Pyne
' ''www.greyheronsprints.com'', Grey Heron Prints *

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