Henry Howard (artist)

Henry Howard ( born January 31, 1769 in London, † October 5, 1847 in Oxford ) was an English historical and portrait painter.

Henry Howard was formed in Rome, especially under John Flaxman, a painter and returned after he had acquired through his painting The Death of Cain, a name, in 1794 returned to England.

In 1808 he became a member of the Academy and in 1811 secretary and professor of painting at the same. He died on 5 October 1847 in Oxford.

Howard joined with appealing art, a delicate and poetic feeling. The most well-known paintings by his hand are:

• Hero and Leander
• Lear and Cordelia
• The Lautenschlägerin
• The Birth of Venus

His son, Frank Howard, also a painter and illustrator (b. 1805 London, died in 1866 in Liverpool) his father gave out Lectures on Painting ( London 1848, 2 vols ).