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Thomas Fellowes (1778–1853)
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Fellowes (7 January 1778 – 12 April 1853) was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Life Fellowes was the youngest of the five sons of William Fellowes, physician-extraordinary to the Prince Regent – one of Thomas's brothers was the physician Sir James Fellowes and James's son was the later Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Hounsom Butler Fellowes. Serving for a while on ships of the East India Company, Thomas moved to the Royal Navy in 1797 as the master's mate on HMS ''Royal George''. He then moved to HMS ''Diana'' and then to other ships before the Peace of Amiens in 1802. When the war broke out again he was deployed to the East Indies under Sir Edward Pellew, rising to lieutenant in 1807 and spending time in the West Indies in HMS ''Northumberland'', Sir Alexander Cochrane's flagship. His first command was the brig HMS ''Swinger'' in 1808 as lieutenant-commander, with which he fought at the capture of the isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wyatt (artist)
Henry Wyatt (17 September 1794 – 27 February 1840), was an English portrait, subject, and genre painter. Life and work Wyatt was born at Thickbroom, near Lichfield, Staffordshire on 17 September 1794. On the death of his father, when he was only three years old, he went to live at Birmingham with his guardian, Francis Eginton, the well-known glass-painter, who, finding he had an aptitude for art, sent him to London in 1811, and in the following year he was admitted to the school of the Royal Academy. In 1815, he entered the studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence as a pupil. At the end of 1817, he established himself as a portrait-painter, practising first at Birmingham and successively at Liverpool, and Manchester, also painting occasional subject pictures. In 1825, he settled in London, where he resided in Newman Street until 1834, when ill-health obliged him to move to Leamington. It was his intention to return to London in 1837, but having some portrait commissions in Manchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |