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'''William Huggins''' (May 1820 – 25 February 1884)<ref name="dnb">{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Huggins, William (1820-1884)}}</ref> was an [[English people|English]] artist, from [[Liverpool]], who specialised in drawing animals.<ref name="burlington">{{cite web|url=http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/william-huggins.html|title=William Huggins|work=Burlington Paintings|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref>
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''Not to be confused with maritime artist [[William John Huggins]] (1781-1845).''

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'''William Huggins''' (May 1820 – 25 February 1884)<ref name=dnb>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Huggins, William (1820-1884)}}</ref> was an [[English people|English]] artist, from [[Liverpool]], who specialised in drawing animals.<ref name=burlington>{{cite web|url=http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/william-huggins.html|title=William Huggins|work=Burlington Paintings|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref>


Huggins was a member of the [[Liverpool Academy of Arts]].<ref name=burlington/> He enjoyed visiting [[Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie]], an animal circus, and the Liverpool [[Zoological Gardens]].<ref name=leicestergalleries>{{cite web|url=http://www.leicestergalleries.com/index.pl?isa=Metadot::SystemApp::ArtistSearch;op=detail;artist=121;show_bio=1;printable=1|title=WILLIAM HUGGINS Artist Biography|work=Peter Nahum|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref> Huggins has been compared to fellow Liverpool artist [[George Stubbs]]<ref name=leicestergalleries/> and is known for keeping his house full of pets.<ref name=Christie>{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=1368904|title=William Huggins (1820-1884)|work=[[Christie's]]|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref><ref name=simfineart/>
Huggins was a member of the [[Liverpool Academy of Arts]].<ref name="burlington"/> He enjoyed visiting [[Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie]], an animal circus, and the Liverpool [[Zoological Gardens]].<ref name="leicestergalleries">{{cite web|url=http://www.leicestergalleries.com/index.pl?isa=Metadot::SystemApp::ArtistSearch;op=detail;artist=121;show_bio=1;printable=1|title=WILLIAM HUGGINS Artist Biography|work=Peter Nahum|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> Huggins has been compared to fellow Liverpool artist [[George Stubbs]]<ref name="leicestergalleries"/> and is known for keeping his house full of pets.<ref name="Christie">{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=1368904|title=William Huggins (1820-1884)|work=[[Christie's]]|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="simfineart"/>


==Life==
==Life==
William Huggins was born in Liverpool. His parents were called Samuel and Elizabeth. He received his first instruction in drawing at the [[Liverpool Institute High School for Boys|Liverpool Mechanics' Institution]]. He won a prize for "Adam's Vision of the Death of Abel" and successfully entered work to be shown at the [[Liverpool Academy of Arts]] whilst fifteen years old.<ref name=dnb/> He drew from life using the classes at the Academy of Arts or by sketching the animals in Liverpool's zoo.<ref name=dnb/> He travelled further afield to see exotic animals at the unusual [[George Wombwell|Wombwell’s Travelling Menagerie]].<ref name=simfineart>{{cite web|url=http://www.simfineart.com/paint/huggins.htm|title=Sim Fine Art, William Huggins (1820-1884)|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref> His animal work was admired and compared to [[George Stubbs|Stubbs]]. Huggins was magnanimous in acknowledging Stubbs' influence and this contrasts with a later comparison that was made with [[Edwin Henry Landseer|Landseer]] where Huggins felt insulted. Huggins pictures of exotic animals were much admired but they are noted for lack of background as Huggins never saw them in their own habitat.<ref name=odnb/>
William Huggins was born in Liverpool. His parents were called Samuel and Elizabeth. He received his first instruction in drawing at the [[Liverpool Institute High School for Boys|Liverpool Mechanics' Institution]]. He won a prize for "Adam's Vision of the Death of Abel" and successfully entered work to be shown at the [[Liverpool Academy of Arts]] whilst fifteen years old.<ref name="dnb"/> He drew from life using the classes at the Academy of Arts or by sketching the animals in Liverpool's zoo.<ref name="dnb"/> He travelled further afield to see exotic animals at the unusual [[George Wombwell|Wombwell’s Travelling Menagerie]].<ref name="simfineart">{{cite web|url=http://www.simfineart.com/paint/huggins.htm|title=Sim Fine Art, William Huggins (1820-1884)|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref> His animal work was admired and compared to [[George Stubbs|Stubbs]]. Huggins was magnanimous in acknowledging Stubbs' influence and this contrasts with a later comparison that was made with [[Edwin Henry Landseer|Landseer]] where Huggins felt insulted. Huggins pictures of exotic animals were much admired but they are noted for lack of background as Huggins never saw them in their own habitat.<ref name="odnb"/>
[[File:HugglesCatst.jpg|thumb|left|Lion and Lioness; a pair.<ref>[http://www.redfoxfineart.com/inventory_artist_detail.php?id=4000&artist_id=7026 W. Huggins] (Red Fox Fine Art)</ref>]]
[[File:HugglesCatst.jpg|thumb|left|Lion and Lioness; a pair.<ref>[http://www.redfoxfineart.com/inventory_artist_detail.php?id=4000&artist_id=7026 W. Huggins] (Red Fox Fine Art)</ref>]]
In 1845 Huggins changed his themes away from animals and chickens. His paintings were based on literary themes from Milton, Shelley and [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser's]] "[[The Faerie Queene]]" and [[Thomas Moore|Moore's]] "Enchantress and Nourmahal"<ref name=dnb/>
In 1845 Huggins changed his themes away from animals and chickens. His paintings were based on literary themes from Milton, Shelley and [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser's]] "[[The Faerie Queene]]" and [[Thomas Moore|Moore's]] "Enchantress and Nourmahal"<ref name="dnb"/>
[[File:Cattle watering 1871.jpg|thumb|right|Cattle watering (1871)]]
[[File:Cattle watering 1871.jpg|thumb|right|Cattle watering (1871)]]
Huggins first exhibited "Androcles and the lion" at the [[Royal Academy]] and made successful entries from 1846 until he was in his seventies. In addition he showed his paintings at most of the major cities in Great Britain.<ref name=dnb/> He was influenced in his use of glazes by the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelites]] who also had exhibitions there.<ref name=leicestergalleries/><ref name=jstor>{{cite journal|jstor=875122|title=Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions|work=|page=641|volume=108}}</ref> He became a full member of the Liverpool Academy in 1850 (resigning in 1856), but never became an [[Royal Academy|RA (Royal Academician)]].<ref name=dnb/>
Huggins first exhibited "Androcles and the lion" at the [[Royal Academy]] and made successful entries from 1846 until he was in his seventies. In addition he showed his paintings at most of the major cities in Great Britain.<ref name="dnb"/> He was influenced in his use of glazes by the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelites]] who also had exhibitions there.<ref name="leicestergalleries"/><ref name="jstor">{{cite journal|jstor=875122|title=Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions|page=641|volume=108}}</ref> He became a full member of the Liverpool Academy in 1850 (resigning in 1856), but never became an [[Royal Academy|RA (Royal Academician)]].<ref name="dnb"/>


In 1861 Huggins moved to [[Chester]] where he lived with his brother, Samuel, until 1865. Huggins work at this time moved from animals to buildings (his brother, [[Samuel Huggins|Samuel]] was a notable architectural writer). He painted [[Chester Cathedral]] which his brother was to go on to defend when it was to be restored.<ref>Albert Nicholson, ‘Huggins, Samuel (1811–1885)’, rev. Valerie Scott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14050, accessed 2 June 2010]</ref> After leaving his brother, he painted the "Stones of Chester, or Ruins of St. John's" (1874) and the "Salmon Trap on the Dee". He moved to [[Betws-y-Coed]] in 1876 so that he could paint landscapes. One painting that resulted was, "The Fairy Glen" which was exhibited in Liverpool in 1877.<ref name=dnb/>
In 1861 Huggins moved to [[Chester]] where he lived with his brother, Samuel, until 1865. Huggins work at this time moved from animals to buildings (his brother, [[Samuel Huggins|Samuel]] was a notable architectural writer). He painted [[Chester Cathedral]] which his brother was to go on to defend when it was to be restored.<ref>Albert Nicholson, ‘Huggins, Samuel (1811–1885)’, rev. Valerie Scott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14050, accessed 2 June 2010]</ref> After leaving his brother, he painted the "Stones of Chester, or Ruins of St. John's" (1874) and the "Salmon Trap on the Dee". He moved to [[Betws-y-Coed]] in 1876 so that he could paint landscapes. One painting that resulted was, "The Fairy Glen" which was exhibited in Liverpool in 1877.<ref name="dnb"/>


Huggins eventually moved from Wales and settled in and died in the [[Cheshire]] village of [[Christleton]] on 25 February 1884,<ref name=odnb>Albert Nicholson, ‘Huggins, William (1820–1884)’, rev. Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, Jan 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14052, accessed 2 June 2010]</ref> just a year before his brother, [[Samuel Huggins|Samuel]]. The brothers were buried in [[St James' Church, Christleton]], and the headstone of their grave is a Grade&nbsp;II [[listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1187247|desc= Headstone of William Huggins, Churchyard of St.James|access-date= 8 May 2013}}</ref>
Huggins eventually moved from Wales and settled in and died in the [[Cheshire]] village of [[Christleton]] on 25 February 1884,<ref name="odnb">Albert Nicholson, ‘Huggins, William (1820–1884)’, rev. Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, Jan 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14052, accessed 2 June 2010]</ref> just a year before his brother, [[Samuel Huggins|Samuel]]. The brothers were buried in [[St James' Church, Christleton]], and the headstone of their grave is a Grade&nbsp;II [[listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1187247|desc= Headstone of William Huggins, Churchyard of St.James|access-date= 8 May 2013}}</ref>


==Work==
==Work==
[[File:Bengal Tiger d4617011x.jpg|thumb|right|''A Bengal Tiger'' was painted when he was 18<ref>[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=9&intObjectID=4617011&sid=b0379325-5f7b-45b3-a151-d5d0653120fd A Bengal Tiger] (1838)</ref>]]
[[File:Bengal Tiger d4617011x.jpg|thumb|right|''A Bengal Tiger'' was painted when he was 18<ref>[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=9&intObjectID=4617011&sid=b0379325-5f7b-45b3-a151-d5d0653120fd A Bengal Tiger] (1838)</ref>]]
Huggins' horses, cattle, and poultry pictures were his best and most characteristic work, good in drawing, and remarkable for brilliance of colour.<ref name=odnb/> "Tried Friends", purchased by the Liverpool corporation, illustrates his use of transparent glazes over a white ground. Huggins' preferred medium was painting on white millboard from pencil outlines.<ref name=victorianweb>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/paintings/2.html|title=Barn Door Fowl (Rhode Island Reds) by William Huggins|author=Sally Burgess and Peter Nahum|accessdate=22 May 2010}}</ref>
Huggins' horses, cattle, and poultry pictures were his best and most characteristic work, good in drawing, and remarkable for brilliance of colour.<ref name="odnb"/> "Tried Friends", purchased by the Liverpool corporation, illustrates his use of transparent glazes over a white ground. Huggins' preferred medium was painting on white millboard from pencil outlines.<ref name="victorianweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/paintings/2.html|title=Barn Door Fowl (Rhode Island Reds) by William Huggins|author=Sally Burgess and Peter Nahum|access-date=22 May 2010}}</ref>


Huggins portrait include one of the master of the [[Holcombe Hunt]], his brother Samuel and himself. He included his wife in "Aerial combat, the fight between the Eagle and the Serpent" which he painted in his literary phase and which illustrated [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley's]] "Revolt of Islam."
Huggins portrait include one of the master of the [[Holcombe Hunt]], his brother Samuel and himself. He included his wife in "Aerial combat, the fight between the Eagle and the Serpent" which he painted in his literary phase and which illustrated [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley's]] "Revolt of Islam."
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Huggins has nearly 60 paintings in public collections in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Art UK bio}}</ref>
Huggins has nearly 60 paintings in public collections in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Art UK bio}}</ref>


According to art-historian and gallery owner [[Rupert Maas]], "Huggins was an eccentric individual. He preferred the company of animals, especially chickens, than of his fellow men. He hated travelling through tunnels, and so would get off the train before Liverpool and walk the rest of the way home. His epitaph, which he composed himself, read: 'A just and compassionate man who would neither tread on a worm, nor cringe to an Emperor'."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/index.html |title=William Huggins |publisher=Victorianweb.org |date=12 August 2001 |accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
According to art-historian and gallery owner [[Rupert Maas]], "Huggins was an eccentric individual. He preferred the company of animals, especially chickens, than of his fellow men. He hated travelling through tunnels, and so would get off the train before Liverpool and walk the rest of the way home. His epitaph, which he composed himself, read: 'A just and compassionate man who would neither tread on a worm, nor cringe to an Emperor'."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/index.html |title=William Huggins |publisher=Victorianweb.org |date=12 August 2001 |access-date=14 March 2016}}</ref>


===Paintings (selected)===
===Selected paintings===
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*[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=4617010&sid=b0379325-5f7b-45b3-a151-d5d0653120fd A Jaguar] (1838)
*[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=salesummary&pos=8&intObjectID=4617010&sid=b0379325-5f7b-45b3-a151-d5d0653120fd A Jaguar] (1838)
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/paintings/1.html Bideston Farmhouse] (1850)
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/paintings/1.html Bideston Farmhouse] (1850)
*[http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/10231 Poultry in a landscape] (1856)
*[http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/10231 Poultry in a Landscape] (1856) {{Registration required}}
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/paintings/2.html Barn Door Fowl (Rhode Island Reds)] (1860)
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/paintings/2.html Barn Door Fowl (Rhode Island Reds)] (1860)
*[http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/13148 A horse in the stable] (1866)
*[http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/13148 A Horse in the Stable] (1866) {{Registration required}}
*[http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3447943&iSaleNo=14609&iSaleSectionNo=1 Portrait of a Newfoundland] (1869)
*[http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3447943&iSaleNo=14609&iSaleSectionNo=1 Portrait of a Newfoundland] (1869)
*[http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/12058 Portrait of a boy] (1869)
*[http://www.leicestergalleries.com/art-and-antiques/detail/12058 Portrait of a Boy] (1869) {{Registration required}}
*[http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/AALQ001823.html He who dares]
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===Other sources===
===Other sources===
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*D'Arcy Cornelius P. ''The encouragement of the fine arts in Lancashire 1760-1860'' (Manchester Univ Press, 1996) p.&nbsp;55.
*D'Arcy Cornelius P. ''The encouragement of the fine arts in Lancashire 1760-1860'' (Manchester Univ Press, 1996) p.&nbsp;55.
*[http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/william-huggins.html ''William Huggins''] (burlington.co.uk - retrieved: 2010-05-22)
*[http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/william-huggins.html ''William Huggins''] (burlington.co.uk - retrieved: 2010-05-22)


==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/huggins_william.html William Huggins online] (ArtCyclopedia)
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/huggins_william.html William Huggins online] (ArtCyclopedia)
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/index.html Huggins: an overview] (Victorian Web)
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/huggins/index.html Huggins: an overview] (Victorian Web)
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[[Category:English watercolourists]]
[[Category:English watercolourists]]
[[Category:Artists from Liverpool]]
[[Category:Artists from Liverpool]]
[[Category:People from Liverpool]]
[[Category:1829 births]]
[[Category:1829 births]]
[[Category:1884 deaths]]
[[Category:1884 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century English male artists]]

Latest revision as of 20:57, 20 August 2022

Not to be confused with maritime artist William John Huggins.

William Huggins
Self portrait with chickens
BornMay 1820
Liverpool, England
Died25 February 1884(1884-02-25) (aged 63)
Christleton, Cheshire, England
Known forPainting birds and animals

William Huggins (May 1820 – 25 February 1884)[1] was an English artist, from Liverpool, who specialised in drawing animals.[2]

Huggins was a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts.[2] He enjoyed visiting Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie, an animal circus, and the Liverpool Zoological Gardens.[3] Huggins has been compared to fellow Liverpool artist George Stubbs[3] and is known for keeping his house full of pets.[4][5]

Life

[edit]

William Huggins was born in Liverpool. His parents were called Samuel and Elizabeth. He received his first instruction in drawing at the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. He won a prize for "Adam's Vision of the Death of Abel" and successfully entered work to be shown at the Liverpool Academy of Arts whilst fifteen years old.[1] He drew from life using the classes at the Academy of Arts or by sketching the animals in Liverpool's zoo.[1] He travelled further afield to see exotic animals at the unusual Wombwell’s Travelling Menagerie.[5] His animal work was admired and compared to Stubbs. Huggins was magnanimous in acknowledging Stubbs' influence and this contrasts with a later comparison that was made with Landseer where Huggins felt insulted. Huggins pictures of exotic animals were much admired but they are noted for lack of background as Huggins never saw them in their own habitat.[6]

Lion and Lioness; a pair.[7]

In 1845 Huggins changed his themes away from animals and chickens. His paintings were based on literary themes from Milton, Shelley and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and Moore's "Enchantress and Nourmahal"[1]

Cattle watering (1871)

Huggins first exhibited "Androcles and the lion" at the Royal Academy and made successful entries from 1846 until he was in his seventies. In addition he showed his paintings at most of the major cities in Great Britain.[1] He was influenced in his use of glazes by the Pre-Raphaelites who also had exhibitions there.[3][8] He became a full member of the Liverpool Academy in 1850 (resigning in 1856), but never became an RA (Royal Academician).[1]

In 1861 Huggins moved to Chester where he lived with his brother, Samuel, until 1865. Huggins work at this time moved from animals to buildings (his brother, Samuel was a notable architectural writer). He painted Chester Cathedral which his brother was to go on to defend when it was to be restored.[9] After leaving his brother, he painted the "Stones of Chester, or Ruins of St. John's" (1874) and the "Salmon Trap on the Dee". He moved to Betws-y-Coed in 1876 so that he could paint landscapes. One painting that resulted was, "The Fairy Glen" which was exhibited in Liverpool in 1877.[1]

Huggins eventually moved from Wales and settled in and died in the Cheshire village of Christleton on 25 February 1884,[6] just a year before his brother, Samuel. The brothers were buried in St James' Church, Christleton, and the headstone of their grave is a Grade II listed building.[10]

Work

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A Bengal Tiger was painted when he was 18[11]

Huggins' horses, cattle, and poultry pictures were his best and most characteristic work, good in drawing, and remarkable for brilliance of colour.[6] "Tried Friends", purchased by the Liverpool corporation, illustrates his use of transparent glazes over a white ground. Huggins' preferred medium was painting on white millboard from pencil outlines.[12]

Huggins portrait include one of the master of the Holcombe Hunt, his brother Samuel and himself. He included his wife in "Aerial combat, the fight between the Eagle and the Serpent" which he painted in his literary phase and which illustrated Shelley's "Revolt of Islam."

Huggins has nearly 60 paintings in public collections in the United Kingdom.[13]

According to art-historian and gallery owner Rupert Maas, "Huggins was an eccentric individual. He preferred the company of animals, especially chickens, than of his fellow men. He hated travelling through tunnels, and so would get off the train before Liverpool and walk the rest of the way home. His epitaph, which he composed himself, read: 'A just and compassionate man who would neither tread on a worm, nor cringe to an Emperor'."[14]

Selected paintings

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References

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Huggins, William (1820-1884)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  2. ^ a b "William Huggins". Burlington Paintings. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  3. ^ a b c "WILLIAM HUGGINS Artist Biography". Peter Nahum. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  4. ^ "William Huggins (1820-1884)". Christie's. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Sim Fine Art, William Huggins (1820-1884)". Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  6. ^ a b c Albert Nicholson, ‘Huggins, William (1820–1884)’, rev. Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ;online edn, Jan 2007 accessed 2 June 2010
  7. ^ W. Huggins (Red Fox Fine Art)
  8. ^ "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions". 108: 641. JSTOR 875122. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ Albert Nicholson, ‘Huggins, Samuel (1811–1885)’, rev. Valerie Scott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 June 2010
  10. ^ Historic England. "Headstone of William Huggins, Churchyard of St.James (1187247)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  11. ^ A Bengal Tiger (1838)
  12. ^ Sally Burgess and Peter Nahum. "Barn Door Fowl (Rhode Island Reds) by William Huggins". Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  13. ^ 56 artworks by or after William Huggins at the Art UK site
  14. ^ "William Huggins". Victorianweb.org. 12 August 2001. Retrieved 14 March 2016.

Other sources

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  • D'Arcy Cornelius P. The encouragement of the fine arts in Lancashire 1760-1860 (Manchester Univ Press, 1996) p. 55.
  • William Huggins (burlington.co.uk - retrieved: 2010-05-22)
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