John Byrne (English artist)

View from the south side of King George's Sound, first published in Matthew Flinders' 1814 A voyage to Terra Australis. After a painting by William Westall.

John Byrne (1786–1847), the only son of engraver William Byrne, was born in 1786, and for some time followed his father's profession; but subsequently directed his attention toward landscape painting in watercolours. His sister Mary and her son were also painters. Byrne sent pictures to the exhibitions of the Water-Colour Society and the Royal Academy; and spent some years (about 1832-37) in Italy. He died in 1847. In the Victoria and Albert Museum are:

• The Ferry at Twickenham (exhibited in 1830).
• Italian Landscape, with Monastery.

Matlock church: engraving by John and Letitia Byrne after a painting by Joseph Farington. Published in 1817 in Britannia Depicta, Part VI, Derbyshire.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "BYRNE, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]