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EARLE, AUGUSTUS (1793-1838), artist and traveller, was born on 1 June 1793 in London, a son of James Earle, an American artist and his wife Caroline, widow of an American loyalist by whom she had one son, William H. Smyth. Augustus was the nephew of Ralph Earle, the well-known American portrait painter. His father, who had studied at the Royal Academy, returned to America in 1794, but died of yellow fever at Charleston in August 1796. Augustus, too, is said to have studied at the Academy; and in student days he befriended the American artists, C. R. Leslie, biographer of Constable, and Samuel Morse, inventor of the code, who accompanied him on painting excursions. Graves records Earle as exhibiting a 'Judgement of Midas' at the Academy in 1806, 'Battle of Poitiers' (1808), 'Caius Marcius taking possession of the city of Corioli' (1809), 'Banditti' (1811-12), 'A man-of-war's boats cutting out a French barque' (1814) and a view of Calais (1815).

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Sydney, N.S.W. : Earle's Lithography, [ca. 1825]
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London (18 Holborn, opposite Furnival's Inn) : J. Cross, 1830 Aug. 10
 
 
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London (18 Holborn opposite Furnival's Inn) : J. Cross, 1830 Aug. 10
 
 
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