William Henry Pyne

Pyne was one of the founders of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1804.[2]

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is visual arts, painting and illustration. Places of work recorded in the authority are Greater London. Work by William Henry Pyne is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Tate, National Gallery of Canada, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale Center for British Art.

Pyne's book The Costume of Great Britain, including 60 paintings of professional and working-class men and women and scenes from everyday life (published by William Miller in 1805),[3] attracted the attention of the publisher Rudolph Ackermann, and Pyne was to engrave and write for many of his projects, including writing the text for the first two volumes of the very successful illustration-centred The Microcosm of London. He was his own publisher for The History of the Royal Residences (1816–1819), a large illustrated book with 100 engravings of the exteriors and interior decorations and furnishings of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace and Hampton Court Palace. It caused financial difficulties for him – he was imprisoned for debt more than once,[4] and died a poor man in 1843.[5] As Ephraim Hardcastle, he wrote gossipy columns on art for the Literary Gazette, which in 1824 were collected in 2 volumes as Wine and Walnuts, or After-dinner Chit-chat. He wrote for other journals, and in 1825 published a novel The Twenty-ninth of May, or Rare Doings at the Restoration.[6] Pyne's watercolours are in major museum collections, such as the Royal Collection and the British Museum. His son, George Pyne (1800–01 - 1884), was also a painter in watercolour, writer on drawing and perspective.[7]

• Illustration — An ocean of motion about Spanish commotions or the windy explosion of pot-hous oration, 1796–1808 • Illustration — The King's Audience Chamber at Windsor Castle, from The History of the Royal Residences • Illustration — The quadrangle at Hampton Court • Illustration — St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle from the Altar, from Pyne's Royal Residences, 1819. • Illustration — The Pillory, from The Costume of Great Britain, 1805 • Illustration — Waterman to a Coach Stand, from The Costume of Great Britain, 1808 • Illustration — Man and woman washing linen in a brook, from Microcosm, 1806

William Henry Pyne is recorded as writer, journalist, painter and illustrator.