19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5 | A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880 | General Napper Tandy | Erin Go Brach | Lord Clare | Related Artists:
Momper II, Joos deFlemish Baroque Era Painter, 1564-1635
Henry Courtnay Selous (1803-1890), Painter and lithographer
Henry GrittenAustralian Landscape artist
1818-1873
was an English/Australian artist. Gritten was the son of a London picture dealer, was born probably in 1817. He studied art and was on friendly terms with David Roberts and other leading artists of the period. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1835, and during the next 10 years 12 of his pictures were hung at its exhibitions. He was a more frequent exhibitor at the British Institution, and had 30 of his pictures hung there between 1836 and 1848. In the latter year he went to the United States and in about 1852 arrived in Australia. He went first to the Bendigo goldfields, but soon resumed painting in Victoria and Tasmania; there is a View of Hobart in 1857 by him at the National Library of Australia at Canberra. He was represented at the first exhibition of the Victorian Academy of Art held at Melbourne in 1870. He died suddenly at Melbourne leaving a widow and four children in poor circumstances. Gritten was quite a capable painter of his period who had a hard struggle in Australia.
