Eyre, Henry James, 1807-1894

Person

Biography

Henry Eyre was the son of actor and playwright Edmund John Eyre, 1767-1816: members of the Eyre family were connected in various capacities to the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. Henry Eyre's sister Mary married the actor and painter Montague Stanley in 1833. A possible distant connection by marriage with the painter John Prescott Knight (see Adam White's note to Coll-10/3/55) may have assisted Eyre in becoming after 1849 successively clerk, Registrar and Secretary at the Royal Academy, London.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

[Sketches for a Panorama of the Clyde, 5], undated

piece

Identifier: Coll-10/6/137

Scope and Contents

[Sketches for a Panorama of the Clyde, 5]. Pen and ink wash. Undated. Hillyard, Henry, 1803?-1873, Artist; Eyre, Henry James, 1807-1894, Donor.

Note: The fifth of a series of 9 annotated sketches by Hillyard (Coll-10/6/133 - Coll-10/6/141) for an apparently unrealised panorama of the Clyde.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 6. Stirling, Lanark (Glasgow), Renfrew, Dunbarton

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Subject: Dumbarton Rock (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) X