Samuel Howitt Art

'Turtle Fishing in the Water' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863). From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was...

'The Eagle & Wolf Disputing the Prize' Colour aquatint by Samuel Howitt. From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrator and etcher o...

'Tartars Hunting Deer' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after Samuel Howitt. From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustr...

'A Tartar Catching His Horse' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Augustus Atkinson (1775 – after 1830). From Samuel Howitt's 'For...

Original antique etching by Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) . C1810. Published by Edward Orme. An early 19th century etching by Howitt from a series depicting fables. Samuel Howitt was h...

Original antique etching by Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) . C1810. Published by Edward Orme. An early 19th century etching by Howitt from a series depicting fables. Samuel Howitt was h...

'A Tartar Catching His Horse' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Augustus Atkinson (1775 – after 1830). From Samuel Howitt's 'For...

'Wild Boar Wounded' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after Franz Joseph Manskirch (1768-1830). From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an Englis...

'American Anecdote - Wolves & Boy' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863). From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howit...

'Bird Catching from Above' Colour aquatint by Mathew Dubourg (1786-1838) after John Heavenside Clark (c1770-1863). From Samuel Howitt's 'Foreign Field Sports'. Samuel Howitt was an...

An original hand -colored aquatint on J. Whatman watermarked paper of Exotic Hunting & Sporting Scenes by English artist Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) titled "Hindoo Method of Taming Elephants", 1813. Published and sold 1813, Edward Orne, Bond Street, London. Framed size: 12.25" x 14". Image size: 5.25" x 7.25". Some light toning to paper. In overall good condition. Howitt was a member of an old Nottinghamshire Quaker family. In early life he lived at Chigwell, near Epping Forest, Essex, was financially independent and devoted himself to field sports. However he ran into financial difficulties and was obliged to turn to art as a profession - which up until then he had engaged in as a talented amateur. Coming to London, he was for a time a drawing master at Samuel Goodenough's school in Ealing. In 1783, he exhibited 3 coloured drawings of hunting subjects with the Incorporated Society of Artists. From time to time he continued to exhibit there and at the Royal Academy, beginning in 1784 with a hunting piece, followed in 1785 by two landscapes - "A view of the ruins of an abbey" and "Fairlop Oak". In 1793 he showed "Jaques and the Deer" and "A Fox Hunt"; in 1794, "Smugglers alarmed"; in 1800, two pictures titled "Deer"; in 1814 "Dead game"; and in 1815, "Bella, horrida Bella". He probably exhibited so little because he was in such demand as a commercial illustrator. Howitt worked both in oils and water-colours, for the most part confining himself to sporting subjects and illustrations of natural history, which were carefully executed, spirited and truthful. These, as Howitt represented in his New Work of Animals, were “drawn from the life" and published so as to "assist the pencil of the designer who has not had an opportunity to pay the same attention to this branch of the art”. However, notes in one sketchbook containing watercolours of apes and monkeys indicate that, while some there certainly were viewed in private menageries, others were studies of stuffed specimens from William Bullock’s museum and the British Museum. Howitt was closely associated in his art with Thomas Rowlandson, whose sister he married, and his works did, at one time, often pass for those of his brother-in-law; but, unlike Rowlandson, he was a practical sportsman, and his scenes were more accurately composed. He was a clever and industrious etcher, and published a great number of plates similar in character to his drawings, and delicately executed with a fine needle. He also produced a number of caricatures in the manner of Rowlandson. Howitt was particularly noted for the illustrations in (Captain) Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports...

An original hand -colored aquatint on J. Whatman watermarked paper of Exotic Hunting & Sporting Scenes by English artist Samuel Howitt (1756-1822) titled "Turtle Fishing in the Water", 1813. Published and sold 1813, Edward Orne, Bond Street, London. Framed size: 12.25" x 14". Image size: 5.25" x 7.25". Good condition. Howitt was a member of an old Nottinghamshire Quaker family. In early life he lived at Chigwell, near Epping Forest, Essex, was financially independent and devoted himself to field sports. However he ran into financial difficulties and was obliged to turn to art as a profession - which up until then he had engaged in as a talented amateur. Coming to London, he was for a time a drawing master at Samuel Goodenough's school in Ealing. In 1783, he exhibited 3 coloured drawings of hunting subjects with the Incorporated Society of Artists. From time to time he continued to exhibit there and at the Royal Academy, beginning in 1784 with a hunting piece, followed in 1785 by two landscapes - "A view of the ruins of an abbey" and "Fairlop Oak". In 1793 he showed "Jaques and the Deer" and "A Fox Hunt"; in 1794, "Smugglers alarmed"; in 1800, two pictures titled "Deer"; in 1814 "Dead game"; and in 1815, "Bella, horrida Bella". He probably exhibited so little because he was in such demand as a commercial illustrator. Howitt worked both in oils and water-colours, for the most part confining himself to sporting subjects and illustrations of natural history, which were carefully executed, spirited and truthful. These, as Howitt represented in his New Work of Animals, were “drawn from the life" and published so as to "assist the pencil of the designer who has not had an opportunity to pay the same attention to this branch of the art”. However, notes in one sketchbook containing watercolours of apes and monkeys indicate that, while some there certainly were viewed in private menageries, others were studies of stuffed specimens from William Bullock’s museum and the British Museum. Howitt was closely associated in his art with Thomas Rowlandson, whose sister he married, and his works did, at one time, often pass for those of his brother-in-law; but, unlike Rowlandson, he was a practical sportsman, and his scenes were more accurately composed. He was a clever and industrious etcher, and published a great number of plates similar in character to his drawings, and delicately executed with a fine needle. He also produced a number of caricatures in the manner of Rowlandson. Howitt was particularly noted for the illustrations in (Captain) Thomas Williamson's Oriental Field Sports...