1. George Clint was an English portrait painter and engraver, especially notable for his many theatrical subjects.
14 Facts About George Clint
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George Clint went to school in Yorkshire and was then apprenticed to a fishmonger, but left after a violent dispute with his employer.
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George Clint found alternative employment in an attorney's office, but took exception to the work and became a house-painter instead - one of his jobs was painting the stones of the arches in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
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George Clint decorated the exterior of a house built by Sir Christopher Wren in Cheapside, and was later employed by the bookseller Thomas Tegg.
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George Clint married the daughter of a small farmer in Berkshire; they had five sons and four daughters.
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George Clint's wife died a fortnight after giving birth to their son Alfred, who became an artist.
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George Clint had a studio in Leadenhall Street, and he became acquainted with the publisher John Bell, whose nephew, the mezzotint engraver Edward Bell, taught Clint the art of engraving.
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George Clint's first in oil painting was a portrait of his wife.
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George Clint was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1821, a position he resigned in 1836, after repeated disappointments in not being made a full academician.
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George Clint subsequently took a house in Peckham, but moved to Pembroke Square, where he died on 10 May 1864.
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George Clint painted portraits of Lord Suffield and his family, Lord Egremont, Lord Essex, Lord Spencer, General Wyndham, and many others.
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George Clint executed several theatrical portraits for Mrs Griffiths of Norwood, some of which were destroyed by fire.
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George Clint's mezzotints included The Trial of Queen Caroline, after George Henry Harlow; a portrait of the William Pitt, after John Hoppner; a portrait of Margaret, Lady Dundas, after Thomas Lawrence; a portrait of Miss Siddons, again after Lawrence, and a print after a self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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One of George Clint's sons, Scipio George Clint, was a notable medallist and seal engraver.