Nathan Cooper Branwhite [SEP] occupation
Nathan Cooper Branwhite
Nathan Cooper Branwhite (c. 1775 – 18 March 1857) was an English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He was Bristol's leading miniature portrait painter in the 1820s.
Life.
Branwhite was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, the son of a poet, Peregrine Branwhite, and became a pupil of Isaac Taylor. He exhibited 13 miniatures at the Royal Academy between 1802 and 1828. He was also a stipple engraver. By
left a numerous family.
Eagles was shy and retiring, but hospitable to men of similar tastes. For "society at large" he "cared little," and did not trouble himself touching what the world thought of him or his occupations (introduction to "The Sketcher", 1856). There is a crayon portrait of Eagles by Nathan Cooper Branwhite, and another in oils by James Curnock.
Writings.
From 1831 till within a few months of his death Eagles was a contributor to "Blackwood's