British Painter , c 1746-1813 He studied in London under Johan Zoffany c. 1769, after which he completed his training at the Maiden Lane Academy. It was probably Zoffany who introduced Walton to the conversation piece, a genre in which he was to specialize. The Cricket Scene at Harrow School (1771; priv. col., see 1963 exh. cat., no. 1) reveals Walton's debt to Zoffany, but it also shows him to be an exceptional colourist and able to compose his figures with a sense of rare warmth and intimacy. By c. 1778, when he painted the Rev. Charles Tyrrell with his Family   Related Paintings of Henry Walton :. | The Virgin and Child The Virgin and Child The Virgin and Child with John the Baptist | Kurtisane und Soldat | Presentation of Charger Coquette to Colonel Mosby by the men of his Command,December 1864 | After the Hunt | La Debacle |
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