Biografia

Gritten era filho de um comerciante de Londres

Londres

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 Ele estudou artes em termos amigáveis com David Roberts e outros importantes artistas do período. Ele começou a apresentar na Academia Real em 1835, e durante os próximos 10 anos, 12 de seus quadros foram pendurados em suas exposições. Ele foi um dos expositores mais freqüentes na Instituição Britânica, e teve 30 de seus quadros pendurados lá entre 1836 e 1848. Em 1848 Gritten foi para os Estados Unidos Viveu em Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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 e teve exposições na União Americana de Artes (1850–1851)e na Academia Nacional de Design (1850–1854). Gritten pintou duas cenas de New Hampshire que foram expostas na Academia Nacional de Design: Kearsarge Mountain (1850) e Recollection Scenery de New Hampshire (1851).

Em 1853 Gritten chegou na Austrália, inicialmente tentando prospecção no goldfields Bendigo

Bendigo, Victoria

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 mas logo retomou a pintura em Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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 e Tasmania

Tasmania

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. Uma "vista de Hobart" (1857)(1857) Por Gritten estar na National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia

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 em Canberra

Canberra

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. Ele foi representado na primeira exposição da Academia de Arte vitoriana realizado em Melbourne em 1870. Ele morreu repentinamente em Melbourne deixando uma viúva e quatro filhos em circunstâncias pobres.
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Gritten foi um pintor capaz de sua época que tinha uma luta difícil na Austrália. Ele é representado na National Gallery of Victoria

National Gallery of Victoria

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 e coleções Connell, Melbourne, na Mitchell Library, Sydney

Sydney

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, e da Commonwealth National Library

National Library of Australia

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, Canberra.

External links

• Henry Gritten at ArtCyclopedia, list of paintings in galleries
• Henry C. Gritten (Australian, 1818-1873) at ArtNet — top 3 sales results