George Patten (29 June 1801 – 11 March 1865) was a British portraitist.
Patten was born on 29 June 1801, the son of William Patten, a miniature-painter, whose works were exhibited at theRoyal Academy between 1791 and 1844, and who died on 22 August 1843. He received his early training in art from his father, and in 1816 became a student in theRoyal Academy Schools, where he first exhibited a miniature of his father in 1819. In 1828, he again entered the schools of the academy, and took up oil painting in 1830.[1]
In 1837, Patten went to Italy, visiting Rome,Venice, andParma; and on his return to England he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. Early in 1840, he went to Germany to paint a portrait ofPrince Albert which was exhibited at the Royal Academy, and engraved byCharles Eden Wagstaff. He was later appointed portrait-painterin ordinary to the Prince.[1]
During the latter part of his life Patten lived at Goodrich Cross,Ross, Herefordshire, but before his death he returned toWinchmore Hill, Middlesex. He died suddenly at Hill House, his residence there, on 11 March 1865, aged sixty-three,[1] and was buried in the churchyard ofAll Saints' Church, Edmonton.[2]
By his wife Lucy, Patten had children includingAlfred Fowler Patten (born 1829), a genre painter, and Clara Maria, mother ofArthur Black,Clementina Black andConstance Garnett.[3][4]
Patten had patronage in the painting of presentation portraits, many of which appeared in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. Among these were portraits ofRichard Cobden,Lord Francis Egerton,Hugh Boyd M'Neile,Baptist Wriothesley Noel, andPaganini the violinist, exhibited in 1833. He exhibited his own portrait in 1858.[1]
Patten painted also mythological, fancy, and scriptural subjects. Among them were:[1]
Several of these appeared also at theBritish Institution, together withReturning Home, in 1833;A Bacchante in 1834;Venus caressing her favourite Dove in 1836; aWood-Nymph in 1838;The Graces in 1840; andBacchus consoling Ariadne for the Loss of Theseus in 1841.[1]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Patten, George".Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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