ANIMAL PAINTERS, 



CHARLES HANCOCK. 



(Born circa 1795. Died circa 1855.) 



CHARLES HANCOCK was born about the 

 year 1795; the exact date cannot now be 

 ascertained, nor are there available any particulars 

 concerning his antecedents, belongings and place of 

 birth. 



The exhibition of a picture at the Royal 

 Academy in 18 19 gives us our first clue ; that 

 year discovers Hancock, then a young man of 

 about 24 years, residing at 55, St. James's Street. 

 He won this first success with a portrait of " Mr. 

 J. Hancock," a near relation, no doubt, of his own. 

 His name does not occur in the Royal Academy 

 catalogue of the following year ; but at the exhibi- 

 tion of 1 82 1 we find him represented by "The 

 Broken Teapot," a title which suggests that his 

 artistic tastes took first a direction domestic rather 



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