Samuel Austin (1796 – 1834), was an

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. Born in

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in 1796, Austin commenced life as a

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's clerk, but eventually gave up a good position in order to devote himself entirely to the art in which he had excelled as an amateur, and of which he was enthusiastically fond. He exhibited water-colour drawings at the

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from 1824 to 1826, and from 1827 at the annual exhibitions of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, of which body he was elected an associate in the last-named year. He painted

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, and occasionally rustic figures: but his best works were coast scenes, introducing boats and figures, some of which were from sketches in the

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, and on the

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. An example of his work, ''Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover, with Luggers on the Beach'', is in the

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. A ''View of Dort'' has been engraved after him by William Miller. He died at Liverpool in July 1834. His pencil and watercolour ''St John's Market'', depicting the eponymous 1822 building in Liverpool, now in the city's

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. His illustration of

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's birthplace is accompanied by a poetical illustration by

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on the subject.

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* Paintings engraved for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books with poetical illustrations by

: *:1832, engraved by Robert Wallis, *:1832, engraved by Robert Wallis, *:1833, engraved by

Robert Brandard Robert Brandard (1805, in Birmingham – 1862, in London) was a British landscape engraver and landscapist. Brandard was the eldest son of Thomas Brandard (d. 1830), engraver and copperplate printer, of Barford Street, Deritend, Birmingham, an ...

, *:1833, engraved by William Miller, *:1836, engraved by E Challis, *:1836, engraved by Samuel Lacey, * In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834, as illustration to

's poem : :* ''Jumma Musjid, Mandoo'', engraved by J Kernot.

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1796 births 1834 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters Artists from Liverpool 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub