Havell, Robert, 1769-1832

found: LCCN 06-18534: Audubon, J.J. The birds of America, 1827-38(hdg.: Havell, Robert, fl. 1800-1840)

found: Herrick, F.S. Audubon the naturalist, 2nd ed., 1938:v. 1, p. 383 (Robert Havell, Senior, then [1825?] in his fifty-eighth year) p. 384 (d. 1832)

found: Oxford DNB online, 28 Nov. 2013:under Havell family, artists and publishers (Robert Havell senior, born in Reading on 29 December 1769; died 21 November 1832; after severing business relations with his father Daniel, Robert Havell senior set up at 79 Newman Street in Fitzrovia, London; he had a son, Robert Havell junior (1793-1878), a printmaker and painter; the firm of R. Havell & Son produced lavish suites of aquatints; the Havells' most famous enterprise commenced in 1827 when the celebrated American ornithologist John James Audubon commissioned a series of plates to illustrate his "Birds of America")

found: Wikipedia, 28 Nov. 2013:under Havell family, Robert Havell Sr. (Robert Havell, Sr., born 29 December 1769, died 21 November 1832, was the proprietor of a printing and engraving shop in the early decades of the nineteenth century; by 1801 Havell was established at 3 Chapel Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in London, giving his occupation as "artist"; the business, known from 1818 to 1825 as Havell and Son, became well known for its expertise in aquatint engraving and colouring; in 1824, he moved the business to 79 Newman Street, where John James Audubon approached him in 1827 to engrave a portfolio of 240 drawings he had brought with him from America; recognizing that without the help of another expert engraver he would not be able to take on a work of this magnitude Robert Havell, Sr., contacted his son, Robert Havell Jr., who had quarreled with his father and left London in an attempt to launch an independent artistic career; Robert Jr. consented to reestablish the partnership with his father and agreed to engrave the plates of Audubon's drawings, with Robert Sr. supervising their printing and colouring; the collaboration between father and son continued in this way until Robert Sr.'s retirement in 1828)