Joseph Clayton Bentley

Place: Bradford

Born: 1809

Death: 1851

Biography:

Joseph Clayton Bentley was a British engraver and painter. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1809. Bentley began his artistic career as a landscape-painter, but in 1832 he went to London, where he studied engraving under Robert Brandard. His engravings included plates for the publications of Fisher, Son & Co.; George Virtue, for whose Gems of European Art he engraved The Fountain after Francesco Zuccarelli and A Sunny Day after Cuyp; and for The Art Journal. He also produced work for the Vernon Gallery. Bentley continued to paint in parallel with his career as an engraver. From 1833 onwards he occasionally exhibited landscapes, mainly views in Yorkshire, at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists, and in the provinces. He died at Sydenham on 9 October 1851.