John Carteret Pilkington
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John Carteret Pilkington was an Irish singer and writer who left lively memoirs of his early life and collaborated on the memoirs of his mother Laetitia Pilkington.
Title page of 1760 Memoirs
Augustus Earle
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Augustus Earle was an English painter. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was
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…Smyth, she had the scientist Admiral William Henry Smyth, and with Earl she had two artists, Phoebe Earle, who married fellow-painter Denis Dighton, and Augustus Earle. His surviving writings are the original and a later expanded version of his picaresque autobiography, which give a vivid picture of his early years…
Augustus Earle, Portrait of Bungaree, a native of New South Wales, with Fort Macquarie, Sydney Harbour, in background, (1826): oil on canvas; 68.5 x 50.5 cm. National Library of Australia
Scene on the quarterdeck of the HMS Beagle painted around 24 September 1832 most likely by Augustus Earle. Charles Darwin is the central figure in a top hat, examining a specimen.
Portrait of Robert Townson, c. 1826
Divine Service as it is Usually Performed on Board a British Frigate at Sea, c. 1836