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Cattermole was an English watercolourist born in August 1800 and died on 24 July 1868.
He began his career as a pupil of John Britton who helped him in the composition of the work "Cathedral antiquities of Great Britain", published in 1820.
He later continued to be interested in architectural drawing, also working as a landscape designer. His fame, however, is due to the portraits of subjects from British history, from Shakespeare and Scott, who painted in watercolor in the Bonington manner much praised by Ruskin.
From 1850 he dedicated himself solely to oil painting. Read the full biography

Cattermole was an English watercolourist born in August 1800 and died on 24 July 1868.
He began his career as a pupil of John Britton who helped him in the composition of the work "Cathedral antiquities of Great Britain", published in 1820.
He later continued to be interested in architectural drawing, also working as a landscape designer. His fame, however, is due to the portraits of subjects from British history, from Shakespeare and Scott, who painted in watercolor in the Bonington manner much praised by Ruskin.
From 1850 he dedicated himself solely to oil painting. He also made numerous illustrations for the works of Scott and Dickens, mostly engraved in C. Heath's studio.
In 1841 "Cattermole's historical Annual" appeared, with engravings made from his drawings and with text written by his brother Richard. A second volume, entitled "Heath's picturesque Annual", came out in 1845. Many of his watercolors can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum.