A portraitist and landscape painter who was born on 28th December 1796 at Boxmore, Hemel Hempstead (though he gave Bourne End in the 1861 census) and was christened in the Box Lane nonconformist chapel. His parentage is not given in the record and nothing is known of his training, but he became a foundation member of the Society of British Artists in 1824 and exhibited there prolifically to the year of his death, except in 1841 and 1849. He also showed four portraits and four other works at the Royal Academy between 1822 and 1849, mainly from London addresses, except in 1846 when he submitted one of ‘a young lady’ from 5 Woodstock Street, Nottingham. The last, a view of Swarcliffe Hall, Harrogate, was from 53 Great Marylebone Street in 1849 and at the 1851 census he was still lodging there. In the 1861 census he was a visitor at Berkhamstead and his last exhibiting address from 1879 was 18 Crowndale Road, Camden Town. He was still there (as an unmarried lodger) and claiming to be 81 in the 1881 census, though in fact 84, and probably died later that year though an exact date is yet to be found.