HAVELL

William ( son of a drawing master at Reading ). b. Reading 9 Feb. 1782; painter in oils and water colours; exhibited 103 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; a foundation member of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1804, seceded 1813, rejoined in 1825; went with Lord Amherst’s emba y to China as a draughtsman 1816; in India practising his profe ion 1817–25; lost his savings by failure of an Indian bank and became a pensioner on Turner fund of Royal Academy; his best known painting is ‘Windsor’ in South Kensington museum; published with Robert Havell A series of views of Noblemen’s seats 1823. d. 3 High row, Kensington 16 Dec. 1857. Red grave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 201; Monk house’s Earlier English Water-colour painters (1890) 65, 91, 95, 119, 131.