The New International Encyclopædia/Cattermole, George

CATTERMOLE, George (1800-68). An English water-color painter, born at Dickleborough, Norfolk. He first exhibited at the Academy in 1819. His pictures, which embrace a wide range of subjects, are remarkable for their striking originality of conception, vigorous execution, and fine color and tone. One of his best-known and greatest pictures is “Luther at the Diet of Spires,” containing thirty-three portraits of the principal characters, copied from the authentic originals by the old masters. He also designed the engravings for his brother's History of the Civil Wars (1841-45), and illustrated many scenes in Scott's novels and in Shakespeare. His later works were chiefly oil paintings. Among his intimate friends were Thackeray, Dickens, Macready, Douglas Jerrold, Landseer, Browning, Macaulay, and Disraeli.