Frederick George Byron
Frederick George Byron (1764–1792), was an English amateur artist and caricaturist, and a relative of the poet the 6th Lord Byron (specifically, first cousin once removed), born in Mansfield in December 1764. Many of his works are unsigned and have frequently been attributed to other artists; in particular some of his works closely resemble those of Thomas Rowlandson. He made numerous plates for William Holland, between 1788–91, see the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
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Frederick George Byron
![Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, mayor of Garrett, presents an address from the Corporation of Garrett to William Pitt the younger, who wears a crown and sits on a commode. Coloured etching by F.G. Byron, 1788., [30 September 1788], by Frederick George Byron](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0050164/full/1280,/0/default.jpg)
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- 1764
- Died
- 1792 · Bristol.
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- Kingdom of Great Britain
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- engraver · artist
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Frederick George Byron (1764–1792), was an English amateur artist and caricaturist, and a relative of the poet the 6th Lord Byron (specifically, first cousin once removed), born in Mansfield in December 1764. Many of his works are unsigned and have frequently been attributed to other artists; in particular some of his works closely resemble those of Thomas Rowlandson. He made numerous plates for William Holland, between 1788–91, see the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
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Born in 1764, died in Bristol in 1792.
Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Frederick George Byron is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale Center for British Art.
A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, in a churchyard. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pettit after E.G. Byron, 1789., 10 April 1789, by Frederick George Byron
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- 1.Bryant, Mark. Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists, 1730-198. Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd. 41. 1994. 978-0859679763.
- 2.Brand, Emily. The Fall of the House of Byron. John Murray. 2020.
- 3.Frederick George Byron (British Museum Biographical details).
- 4.George, M Dorothy. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. The British Museum. 1870–1954.
- 5.Bordes, Philippe thy. Revue du Louvre. The Louvre. IV 199. 57ff. 1992.
- 6.Brand, Emily. The Fall of the House of Byron. 257.
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