Beaumont, SIR GEORGE HOWLAND

Beaumont, SIR GEORGE HOWLAND, landscape painter and patron of art and artists, was born at Stonehall, Dunmow, Essex, 6th November 1753, and studied at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was an intimate friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds, entertained Wordsworth at his house of Coleorton, in Leicestershire, where Scott, Rogers, and Byron met, befriended Coleridge and the painters Wilkie, Haydon, and Landseer, and presented his valuable collection of pictures to the National Gallery. He died 7th February 1827. See Knight's Memorials of Coleorton (1887).