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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 24: Hailes Harriott
Hain es, william (1778 en giraver and painter, was born at Bedhampton, ampshire, on 21 June 1778; but taken in infancy to Chichester he always regarded that city as his native place. He was educated at the Midhurst grammar school, witnessing while there the destruction by fire of Cow dray House. Two years after that disaster he was with Thew, the engraver, at Northaw, Hertfordshire, where when sufficiently profi cient, he worked with Scriven and others on the boydell-shakespeare plates. In 1800 he went to the Cape of Good Hope; his ship, outsailed by the convoy, successfully resisting on the voyage an attack by a French priva teer. At Cape Town and in excursions up the country he made numerous drawings (caffres, Hottentots, resemblingcatlin's later American pictures. From the Cape he passed to Philadelphia, where he engraved a number of book illustrations Johnson's Poets, ' Bradford's British Classics, ' &c.) and some portraits (drs. Barton and Rush, Sir W. Jones, Franklin, &c.) Returning to England he commenced (1805) work in Lon don, adding miniature-painting to his prao tice as an engraver, which brought him again to Chichester and his connections there. Hayley (for whose Life of Romney he had engraved aplate) warmly befriended him, and. On his recommendation he proceeded (after his Chichester engagements were concluded) to Southampton, but with little result. Again in London his professional prospects improved; he adopted a larger scale, and ultimately painted in oils. Among his many sitters for miniatures in Boyle Street, Savile Row, where he resided and built a studio, were Lords Strangford and Portarlington, Lord Fitzroy Somerset (afterwards Lord Raglan), Sir An drew Barnard, and other Peninsula Officers; the Earl of Stanhope (engraved by Reynolds), Sir Charles Forbes, Baron Garrow, Legh, the traveller, Salame, interpreter; Lady Anne Barnard, the Misses Porter, Moore, Theodore Hook, Miss Stephens. He painted portraits in Oils Of Buchanan mcmillan and Captain (sir Parry (both engraved by Reynolds). Succeeding to some property he retired to East Brixton, where he died 24 July 1848.
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