Charles Catton the Elder RA (1728–1798)

• Was an English coach painter, landscape, animal and figure painter.
• Catton was born in Norwich, Norfolk.
• He studied drawing at the St. Martin's Lane Academy.
• He became a member of the Society of Artists, and exhibited various pictures in its galleries in 1760–1764.
• He exhibited at the Academy from its foundation until the year of his death.
• In 1781, he published an etching called The Margate Packet.
• He retired from painting some years before his death.
• He died at his house in Judd Place, New Road, London, on 28 August 1798, and was buried in Bloomsbury cemetery.
• His son, Charles Catton, gained a reputation as a scene-painter and topographical draughtsman.
• Among Catton's pupils were John Durand, his own son Charles Catton the younger, his own brother James and William Owen.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Charles Catton the Elder RA, Self-Portrait, ca. 1769
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