The National Portrait Gallery, London has over 50 of his portraits in its collection including 16 original oils and 35 engravings after him, along with a small number of portraits Pickersgill himself by others. He famously painted author James Silk Buckingham and his wife Elizabeth in Arab costume in 1816, reflecting Buckingham's own travels in the East as well as the fashion of the times for the Orient. Pickersgill was one of the pre-eminent portrait painters of his day so people like William Wordsworth, George Stephenson, Jeremy Bentham, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and Faraday and many more sat for him. Henry was elected to associate membership of the Academy in November 1822 and full membership in February 1826.
Hall and during his lifetime he showed a total of 384 paintings there. His first exhibit at the Royal Academy was a portrait of his benefactor Mr. By the time war caused difficult trading conditions, Pickersgill decided to develop his talent for painting into a career, and was a pupil of landscape artist George Arnald between1802-1805 before entering the Royal Academy Schools as a student in November 1805, and eventually settled to portraiture as his speciality. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields who financed his schooling and then took him into the family business. He was a Royal Academician for almost fifty years, and painted many of the most notable figures of his time.He was adopted in his youth by Mr. Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875) was an English painterwho specialized in portraits.
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