John Hayter (21 October 1800 – 3 June 1895) was an English portrait painter who was Painter-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria, whom he first painted when she was 12 years old.
Biography
He was the second son of the miniaturist
Charles Hayter and brother of
George Hayter, also a portraitist. He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1815, and began to exhibit at the
Royal Academy in the same year. He also exhibited work at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists. Hayter established himself during the 1820s, with portraits of notable figures such as the Duke of Wellington and the opera singer,
Giuditta Pasta. His portrait drawings, in chalks or crayons, became particularly popular, a number of them being engraved for
The Court Album, which contained portraits of the female aristocracy (1850–57).
== Gallery ==
Bibliography
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Drawings by Sir George and John Hayter (exh. cat. by B. Coffey Bryant, London, Morton Morris, 1982) incl.
See also
External links
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, engraved by James Thomson for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
