John Hayter

The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by John Hayter is recorded in the collections of Tate, Art Institute of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery, Victoria Memorial and Yale Center for British Art.

• Name — John Hayter • Birth Name — John Hayter • Born — 21 October 1800 • Birthplace — Marylebone, London, England • Died — 3 June 1895 (aged 94) • Place of death — Brompton, Kent, England • Field — Painter • Patrons — Queen Victoria • Parents — Charles Hayter Martha Stevenson • Relatives — George Hayter (brother) • Honorific Suffix — RA

Hayter was born on 21 October 1800 in Marylebone, London. He was the second son of the miniaturist Charles Hayter and brother of Sir George Hayter, also a portraitist. He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1815, and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in the same year. He also exhibited work at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists.

Hayter established himself during the 1820s, with portraits of notable figures such as the Duke of Wellington and the opera singer, Giuditta Pasta. His portrait drawings, in chalks or crayons, became particularly popular, a number of them being engraved for The Court Album, which contained portraits of the female aristocracy (1850–57).

Hayter died on 3 June 1895 in Brompton, Kent.

• Illustration — Admiral Sir Benjamin Carew c 1833 • Illustration — Lady Augusta FitzClarence and children • Illustration — Characteristics of women - moral, poetical, and historical (1853) • Illustration — Catherine, Lady Stepney