Haden, SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR

Haden, SIR FRANCIS SEYMOUR, who both by his writings and by the etching-needle has contributed to the revival of interest in etching, was born in London on 16th September 1818. He is by profession a surgeon, and was in 1857 elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. His work in connection with etching was undertaken tentatively in 1843, and earnestly in 1858, as a relaxation from professional labours. The Etched Work of F. S. Haden contains 185 plates from his hand; others have been published in Etudes à l'Eau Forte (1865-66). The chief qualities of his work are vigour and breadth. President of the Society of Painter Etchers, he was knighted in 1894, and has written Etched Work of Rembrandt (1879-80), Lectures, and About Etching (1881).