George Henry Bernasconi
George Henry Bernasconi (c. 1842–1916) was a Birmingham artist, the son of George Vincent Bernasconi, and of the same family as Francis Bernasconi. • Illustration — A watercolour of the actor Walter Melville by Bernasconi, circa 1910. • Illustration — Meeting of the City of Birmingham Pharmaceuticals 1888 by George Bernasconi. Bernasconi exhibited at the Royal Academy twice, in 1861 and 1863.
George Henry Bernasconi
- Died
- 1916
- Occupation
- painter
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George Henry Bernasconi (c. 1842–1916) was a Birmingham artist, the son of George Vincent Bernasconi, and of the same family as Francis Bernasconi. • Illustration — A watercolour of the actor Walter Melville by Bernasconi, circa 1910. • Illustration — Meeting of the City of Birmingham Pharmaceuticals 1888 by George Bernasconi. Bernasconi exhibited at the Royal Academy twice, in 1861 and 1863.
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In the 1860s he moved to the Birmingham area and he is listed in the 1871 census as an artist in watercolours. There he contributed cartoons to the long-running Birmingham journal, the Town Crier, edited by his friend Wilmot Corfield. Later, he had a business in modelling and design. In 1885 he inherited almost £7,000 from his father. His 1884 painting Merchant Shipping Bill Banner is in the People's History Museum, Manchester.
In 1911, Bernasconi was living at 31 Breck Road in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire.
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