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1795 Plymouth Dock, now Devonport, England - 1873. Known for: Landscape and genre painting.
One of the best-known painters working in north-east England during the early nineteenth century, Henry Perlee Parker contributed greatly to the development of the region’s cultural life. While... Read full biography
One of the best-known painters working in north-east England during the early nineteenth century, Henry Perlee Parker contributed greatly to the development of the region’s cultural life. While producing a variety of portraits and genre subjects, he became synonymous with scenes of smuggling life.... Read full biography
One of the best-known painters working in north-east England during the early nineteenth century, Henry Perlee Parker contributed greatly to the development of the region’s cultural life. While producing a variety of portraits and genre subjects, he became synonymous with scenes of smuggling life. Henry Perlee Parker was born at Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Devon on 15 March 1795. He was the son of Robert Parker, a teacher of marine and mechanical drawing to the Royal Navy, who has also been... Read full biography
One of the best-known painters working in north-east England during the early nineteenth century, Henry Perlee Parker contributed greatly to the development of the region’s cultural life. While producing a variety of portraits and genre subjects, he became synonymous with scenes of smuggling life. Henry Perlee Parker was born at Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Devon on 15 March 1795. He was the son of Robert Parker, a teacher of marine and mechanical drawing to the Royal Navy, who has also been described as ‘a painter, carver and gilder’ (Wood 1978, p 356). Though he worked briefly as both a tailor and a coachman, Parker soon turned to art, painting portraits and producing drawings for his father’s pupils to copy. In about 1813, he was... Read full biography
One of the best-known painters working in north-east England during the early nineteenth century, Henry Perlee Parker contributed greatly to the development of the region’s cultural life. While producing a variety of portraits and genre subjects, he became synonymous with scenes of smuggling life. Henry Perlee Parker was born at Plymouth Dock (now Devonport), Devon on 15 March 1795. He was the son of Robert Parker, a teacher of marine and mechanical drawing to the Royal Navy, who has also been described as ‘a painter, carver and gilder’ (Wood 1978, p 356). Though he worked briefly as both a tailor and a coachman, Parker soon turned to art, painting portraits and producing drawings for his father’s pupils to copy. In about 1813, he was commissioned by C T Gilbert to illustrate his Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall (1815), and traveled... Read full biography
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