- Samuel Woodforde
Samuel Woodforde (
29 March 1763 –27 July 1817 ) was an 18th-century British painter.Woodforde was born at
Castle Cary ,Somerset . He was the second son of Heighes Woodforde, an accountant ofAnsford and Anne. He was a lineal descendant of the painterSamuel Woodford , and nephew of the diarist,James Woodforde . He was supported by the bankerHenry Hoare ofStourhead ,Wiltshire and his family. On8 March 1782 he became a student at theRoyal Academy Schools and started exhibiting pictures in 1784.Dodgson and Fiske, "Samuel Woodforde".] . He contributed no less than 133 pictures to the Royal Academy [Footnote by John Beresford in the Diary of a Country Parson (James Woodforde)] and 39 at theBritish Institution .Richard Hoare granted Woodforde £100 a year, which allowed him to travel to Italy in 1786. He spent most of his time in
Rome , studying the works ofRaphael ,Michelangelo , andPaolo Veronese . He also visitedVenice andFlorence before returning to London in 1791. Between 1792 and 1815, "he exhibited constantly, showing portraits, scenes of Italian life, historical pictures, and subjects from literature".. Many of his literary pictures were engraved, such as a scene from "Titus Andronicus " byAnker Smith for the Boydell Shakespeare edition (1805) and several other scenes for Longmans Shakespeare (1805–7). Woodforde became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1800 and a full member in 1807.On
7 October 1815 he married Jane Gardner; that year the couple left for Italy. Two years later, Woodforde died of fever atBologna , Italy where he is buried in the cemetery of La Certosa [R.L.Winstanley, "Samuel Woodforde R.A" in Parson Woodforde Society Journal, Vol. VI, No. 1]Notes
References
*Dodgson, Campbell and Tina Fiske. "Samuel Woodforde". "
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ". Oxford University Press. 2004. Retrieved on8 February 2008 .
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