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Lewis Vaslet

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192:"Views of gentlemen’s seats etc., also game, live and dead fish, fruits, flowers, hot house plants and insects etc., so combined and put together as to compose desirable furniture pictures and proper for the ingenious imitation of such ladies who are proficient in drawing needlework embroidery etc." 164:. He soon abandoned that profession and travelled to Italy to study painting. In 1770 and 1771, then resident in York, and having obtained many clients from amongst the local gentry, he submitted miniature portraits for assessment and display at the 148:, and in 1731 in London published a trilingual dictionary. Lewis I purchased Fulham House from Colonel George Howard. Lewis I's gravestone records that he "bestowed great pains upon the teaching of the young through a period of 45 years". 387: 382: 124:, the son of Andrew (or André) Vaslet (1694–1768), who ran a boarding school for young ladies in York. Andre was the son of Lewis I ( 377: 372: 362: 220:
Vaslet died in 1808, having written his will in 1806 (at Caroline Buildings in the parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe, Somerset).
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In 1787 he advertised his repertoire in the mediums of "oils, miniature, crayons &c." as including:
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In 1776 at Bath he married Juliet Elizabeth Booth Clarke, of the parish of St Michael's, Bath.
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pastels of members of Merton College, Oxford, in private collections.
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Lewis II commenced his career as a soldier, and was an
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in Somerset, where he lived for the rest of his life.
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York
Yorkshire
Bath, Somerset
miniature
pastels
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
York
Huguenot
Fulham
Burlington House
The Hague
Cellarius
ensign
Gibraltar
Royal Academy
Bath
Merton College, Oxford

Categories
1742 births
1808 deaths
Artists from York
18th-century English painters
English male painters
19th-century English painters
English portrait miniaturists
19th-century English male artists
18th-century English male artists

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