Charles Hayter

Charles Hayter ( born February 24, 1761 London, † December 1, 1835 ) was an English painter.

Charles Hayter was the son of the same architect (1728-1795) from Twickenham and of his wife Elizabeth Holmes. He first studied with his father, but soon showed a preference for drawing. He painted small pencil portraits, especially of family members. At the age of 25, he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts in 1786. From this point on, he worked as a painter of portrait miniatures in London, Essex and also in Winchester. Between 1786 and 1832 he exhibited 113 miniatures, notably in the Royal Academy. It was preceded by the reputation that his portraits were very similar to those shown people.

1788 Hayter married Martha Stevenson, the couple had three children, two sons and a daughter who were all Artist: George Hayter ( 1792-1871 ), John Hayter ( 1800-1895 ) and Anne Hayter, who, like her father painted miniatures but probably in 1830 died at the age of 16 years.

Charles Hayter was a recognized authority in the field of perspective, taught in Princess Princess Charlotte, the daughter of King George IV, and was appointed to her professor in Perspective and Drawing. He dedicated his book An Introduction to perspective, angepasst to the Capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, which was first published in 1813 in London. In 1826 he published A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimentary information, in which he described how to create all the colors of only three colors.

An album with 443 trials for miniature portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Hayter listed on the inside cover that he had these designs clamped behind the transparent ivory for the thumbnails to trace the lines.