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Last Name Beechey
Given Name Frederick William
alt. Names F. W. B. ;
Marriage Charlotte Stapleton in 1828 ;
Children 5 daughters: landscape painter Frances Anne (1838-1919) = Mrs. Hopkins
Year born 1796 in London
Year died 1856
Place of death London
Father's occupation court portraitist Sir Henry William Beechey (1753-1839) ; miniature painter Ann Phyllis Jessop (1764-1833) (mother)
Relatives 15 siblings + 5 half-siblings, among artists: George Duncan, Henry W, Richard Brydges, Augusta (1812-), Fredericka Anne (1814-); S.R (1822-1859 fl.)
Education painting from John Christian Schetky at Royal Naval School Portsmouth,
Country of Activity Ireland
Worked for Frederick William Beechey: Narrative Voyage Beering's Strait (1831) ; Gentleman's Magazin (1857) ; Illustrated London News (6 December 1856) ;
Patronage William Edward Parry (1790-1855) ; British Navy ; Capt. John Franklin ;
Collaborators William Smyth ; Henry William Beechey ; G. B. Sowerby ;
Techniques marine, zoological, and natural painting, watercolour, and drawing ;
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Archival sources
Published sources AKL 8 1994: 227 ; Sonia S. Bershad: drawings watercolours FWB, in: Arctic 33 / 1 (1980): 117-67 ;
other 1818 draughtsman on board HMS Trent; HMS Hecla, 1825 captain of HMS Blossom to Pacific & Behring Straits 1825-8; North Africa, Pacific, rear-admiral, lieutenant.
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