English painter
Horatio Beevor Love
Born 7 December 1800 Died 13 August 1838(1838-08-13) (aged 37) Nationality English Known for Portrait painting Movement associated with the Norwich School of painters
Horatio (also, incorrectly Horace ) Beevor Love (7 December 1800 – 13 August 1838) was an English portrait painter who exhibited with the Norwich School of painters .
Life
Horatio Beevor Love was born on 7 December 1800, a twin son of Samuel Love and his wife Lydia, and was baptised at the Old Meeting House Congregational Church, Norwich, on 8 January 1801.[ 1]
He painted and exhibited portraits, landscapes and miniatures , and depicted the portraits of several contemporary members of the Norwich School of painters , including John Sell Cotman .[ 2]
He also painted a number of the faces in works by Edwin Cooper (1785-1833), some of which are credited.
He became a Freeman of the City of Norwich on 18 December 1824 with admission as the son of a Freeman and trade of Miniature Painter.
He married Mary Ann Tovell on 19 April 1824 in Norwich and they had six children.
References
^ Horatio Beevor Love in "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", FamilySearch (Horatio Beevor Love ).
^ Walpole, Art and Artists of the Norwich School , p.161.
External links
Bibliography
Walpole, Josephine (1997). Art and Artists of the Norwich School . Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-261-5 .
Norwich Society of Artists 1803-1833
William Philip Barnes Freeman (1813–1897)
Joseph Geldart (1808–1882)
Maria Margitson (1832–1896)
↓ Norwich Society of Artists
Stannard/Hodgson/Coppin family
other members of the Norwich School