Waking Up
Charles Cooper Henderson (1803 - 1877)
Charles, I Hunt (1803 - 1877)
Coloured aquatint
published 2 January 1843-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Equestrian painter Charles Cooper Henderson was born at the Abbey House, Chertsey, in Surrey; the younger son of amateur artist John Henderson and his wife, Georgian, daughter of author and painter George Keate. Educated at Winchester College, Charles qualified for the bar but did not practise. He also took art lessons from Samuel Prout and became a prolific artist, specialising in hunting and coaching subjects, many of which were published by Messrs Fores of Piccadilly and Rudolph Ackermann. Some were etched by Henderson himself. He sent coaching scenes to the Royal Academy exhibitions in 1840 and 1848. After his mother's death in 1850, he became financially independent. He died at his home at Lower Halliford-on-Thames, Middlesex, aged 74.
Charles Hunt I was an aquatint engraver. He is best known for his engravings after the works of sporting artists, although his subjects also included transport, animal and topographical scenes. Although Hunt’s aquatints were generally made after the designs of his contemporaries, he sometimes made prints after his own designs. He was the father of Charles Hunt II, also an aquatint engraver of sporting subjects, and is thought to have been the brother of engraver George Hunt, with whom he collaborated early in his career. J. B. Hunt, who engraved a portrait of the trainer John Scott from a design by Harry Hall, published in the 1850s, may be another relative.
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- Places
- Subjects
- carriage, coach, trumpet, horse, man, Royal Mail, basket, coat of arms, road
- Materials & Techniques
- aquatint, coloured aquatint
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Details
- Title
- Waking Up
- Date
- published 2 January 1843
- Medium
- Coloured aquatint
- Acquisition
- Presented by Fores Ltd, March 1979
- GAC number
- 14604