Elizabeth Walker
Illustration — Elizabeth Reynolds (1825) Elizabeth Walker (1800–1876) was a British engraver and portrait-painter.
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Elizabeth Walker
Elizabeth Walker · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1800 · London.
- Died
- 1876 · London.
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- Kingdom of Great Britain · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- painter
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- portrait
- Languages
- English
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Pencil sketch by George Henry Harlow, 1814, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?mkey=mw05495
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She was born Elizabeth Reynolds in Westminster on 14 July 1800. She was the second child, of six, born to pattern maker Jane Reynolds (born Cowing) and engraver Samuel William Reynolds. The family had debts which they were rescued from by Samuel Whitbread who was a Whig politician. He paid the debts and employed her father as Southill Park's landscape gardener and his artistic adviser. The family moved back to Soho in London in 1814. In 1829, she married Scottish engraver William Walker (1791–1867). She studied engraving under Thomas Goff Lupton, but after a while, decided to devote herself to miniatures (studying under George Clint) rather than engraving. She exhibited at the Royal Academy 1818–50, was appointed miniature painter to William IV in 1830, and executed portraits of five prime ministers. Walker died in London on 9 November 1876.
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• Illustration — Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835) by his daughter Elizabeth Reynolds • Illustration — Edward Scobell (1785-1860), vicar and writer - engraved by William Walker (1791-1867), after his wife Elizabeth Walker • Illustration — Molendinar Burn, Glasgow, Scotland
John Thomas Quekett. Mezzotint by W. Walker after E. Walker., by Elizabeth Walker
Elizabeth Walker · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
John Thomas Quekett. Mezzotint by W. Walker after E. Walker., by Elizabeth Walker
Elizabeth Walker · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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- 1.Lyons, Hannah. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2025-09-11. 978-0-19-861412-8.
- 2.Bryan, Michael. Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers. G. Bell and sons. 1905.
- 3.O'Donoghue, F.M. Walker, William (1791–1867). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2012. 10.1093/ref:odnb/28519.
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