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Henry Petrie

Henry Petrie, 1768-1842

Artist who painted St Giles
See also the Christmas 1999 magazine article The history of church life in Ashtead
He was the son of a dancing master and intended to follow in the same profession. In 1819 he was appointed Keeper of the Records at the Tower of London. Petrie also made a Survey of Southern English Churches in 1800 for which he produced drawings in pencil and watercolour.

Source: H.L. Mallalieu, Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920, Antique Collectors' Club 1976

Antiquary; appointed keeper of the records in the Tower of London, 1819; projected a `corpus historicum' for early English history, one volume of which, edited by Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, appeared in 1848.

Source: Concise Dictionary of National Biography

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