19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | William Sadler-s dramatic reconstruction of a calvary charge in 1798 | Henry Grattan | Belfast Assembly Rooms | George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760 | Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel | Related Artists: Mazo, Juan Bautista Spanish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1612-1667 George P.A.Healy American Painter, 1813-1894
American painter, active also in Europe. At the age of 17 he set up a studio in Boston after receiving encouragement from Thomas Sully, who was painting portraits there. Despite his youth and lack of training, he presented himself to the society figure Mrs Harrison Gray Otis and asked if he might paint her portrait (untraced); she agreed and later sponsored Healy's first trip abroad. In 1834 he entered the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros; the French master's suicide the following year ended Healy's only sustained period of artistic study. In Gros's studio he first encountered Thomas Couture, but they did not meet again until the next decade Volterrano Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1611-ca.1690