John Hayter

{{Short description|English painter (1800–1895)}} {{about|the painter|the antiquarian|John Hayter (antiquary)|the musician|Jack Hayter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = John Hayter | image = A Controversy on Colour by John Hayter enlg.jpg | caption = ''A Controversy on Colour'', by John Hayter showing from left to right Charles Hayter (father of John and George), John Hayter, Edwin Landseer and George Hayter (Shipley Art Gallery, UK) | birth_name = John Hayter | birth_date = 21 October 1800 | birth_place = Marylebone, London, England<ref>E''ngland, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975''</ref> | death_date = 3 June 1895 (aged 94)<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001429/18950606/226/0008 |accessdate=14 July 2018 |work=Maidstone & Kentish Journal |date=6 June 1895 |page=8}}</ref> | death_place = Brompton, Kent, England | field = Painter | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = Queen Victoria | awards = | parents = Charles Hayter<br />Martha Stevenson | relatives = George Hayter (brother) | honorific_suffix = RA }} '''John Hayter''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|RA}} (21 October 1800 – 3 June 1895) was an English portrait painter who was Painter-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, whom he first painted when she was 12 years old.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title=Obituary |work=The Times |page=3 |date= 7 June 1895}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Hayter was born on 21 October 1800 in Marylebone, London. He was the second son of the miniaturist Charles Hayter and brother of Sir George Hayter, also a portraitist. He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1815, and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in the same year. He also exhibited work at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists.

== Career == Hayter established himself during the 1820s, with portraits of notable figures such as the Duke of Wellington and the opera singer, Giuditta Pasta. His portrait drawings, in chalks or crayons, became particularly popular, a number of them being engraved for ''The Court Album'', which contained portraits of the female aristocracy (1850–57).<ref>{{cite web |title=John Hayter |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07089/john-hayter |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=14 July 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

== Death == Hayter died on 3 June 1895 in Brompton, Kent.

== Gallery == <gallery> File:Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew by John Hayter.jpg|Admiral Sir Benjamin Carew c 1833 File:Lady Augusta FitzClarence and children.jpg|Lady Augusta FitzClarence and children File:Characteristics of women - moral, poetical, and historical (1853) (14765068765).jpg|''Characteristics of women - moral, poetical, and historical'' (1853) File:Catherine, Lady Stepney by John Hayter.jpg|Catherine, Lady Stepney </gallery>

== Bibliography == *Drawings by Sir George and John Hayter (exh. cat. by B. Coffey [Bryant], London, Morton Morris, 1982) [incl. checklist of prints]

==See also== * List of British painters

==References== {{commons category|John Hayter}} {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Hayter}} * {{ws|The Sisters}}, engraved by James Thomson for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

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