Henry William Beechey

Henry William Beechey
Born1788 or 1789
Died1862
NationalityBritish
Copy of a mural painting from the grave of Seti I, made by Beechey c. 1818, and now in the British Museum

Henry William Beechey (1788/89 – 4 August 1862)[1] was an English painter and explorer. His father was the painter Sir William Beechey, RA and his stepmother was Anne Jessop.[2] He followed his father's profession. He sent a marine subject to the Royal Academy in 1829, and another in 1838 to the British Institution.[3]

  1. ^ "Henry William Beechey". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  2. ^ John Wilson, 'Beechey, Sir William (1753–1839)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 Retrieved 2 May 2017
  3. ^ (Graves's Dictionary of Artists, 1760-1880, page 18)