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Last Name Byrne

Given Name John

alt. Names J. B. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1786 London

Year died 1847

Place of death London

Father's occupation engraver William Byrne (1743-1805)

Relatives James (1771-1834) (brother; painters: Anne Frances (1775-1837); Mary Green (1776-1846); painter/engravers: Elizabeth (c.1780-1849); Letitia (1779-1849

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Matthew Flinders: Voyage Terra Australis (1814) ; Henry Holland: Travels Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia (1819) ; James Hakewills Picturesque Tour Italy (1820) ;

Patronage

Collaborators artist William Westall ; J. M. W. Turner ; engraver S. Middiman ; engraver J. Pye ; W. Woolnoth ; engraver William Byrne (father) ; Letitia Byrne (sister) ; Elizabeth Byrne (sister) ;

Techniques natural and landscape line engraving, engraving, oil painting, and watercolour;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:View_from_the_south_side_of_King_George%27s_Sound.jpg ;

Archival sources http://www.theweald.org/N10.asp?NId=2622 ;

Published sources AKL 15 1997: 425 ; ThB 5 1911: 316 ;

other Further Places of Activity. France and Italy (c. 1832-7).

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