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| George Moutard Woodward (c. 1760–1809) | ||||||||||
| George Woodward, a caricaturist and the son of William Woodward of Stanton Hall, Derbyshire, was born in that county. Though he received no formal artistic training, he possessed considerable natural talent and moved to London with an allowance from his father. There, he became a prolific and popular designer of social caricatures, working in a manner reminiscent of Bunbury. His drawings were mainly etched by Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank. While often coarse and exaggerated in their humour, his works reveal a vivid imagination and a sharp eye for character, and many remain highly entertaining. Woodward also wrote a number of light, ephemeral pieces in prose and verse, some of which were collected and published in 1805, accompanied by a portrait of the author after a drawing by A. Buck. Despite his success, he led a dissipated and intemperate life, spending much of his time in taverns, and died in poverty at the Brown Bear public-house in Bow Street, Covent Garden. | ||||||||||
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