John Doyle (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
George Williamson · 1913
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John Doyle was an English portrait painter and caricaturist whose signed drawings, H.B., charted the politics of his age. Born in Dublin in 1797, he studied under Gabrielli and the miniature painter Comerford. He came to London in 1821 as a portrait painter and turned to caricature in 1827. He formed his signature from his initials, the letters J and D placed one above the other.
From 1829 to 1851 he produced a famous series of drawings in brilliant style on every political movement of the day. Unlike Rowlandson and Gillray, his work is marked by reticence, courtesy, and good breeding, clever and at times stinging in epigram, though Thackeray underrated it as merely genteel. Some six hundred drawings in the British Museum form a graphic history of England's politics. Doyle kept his incognito to the last, retiring seventeen years before his death in 1868.
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| CREATOR | George Williamson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |