Letitia Byrne
British engraver
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| Intro | British engraver | ||||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | ||||
| was | Engraver | ||||
| Work field | Arts | ||||
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| Birth | 24 November 1779 | ||||
| Death | 21 May 1849 (aged 69 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Sagittarius | ||||
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Letitia Byrne (1779–1849) was a British engraver.
Life
She was born on 24 November 1779, presumably in London, being the third daughter of William Byrne, engraver, and the sister of Anne Frances Byrne. As a pupil of her father, she exhibited landscape-views at the Academy when she was only twenty, in 1799.
In 1810 she etched the illustrations for A Description of Tunbridge Wells, and among other work entrusted to her were four views for Hakewill's History of Windsor. She exhibited From Eton College Play-fields at the Academy in 1822; and had other pictures there (twenty-one in all) down to 1848.
She died 2 May 1849, aged 70, and was buried at Kensal Green.