| Names: | | | Dates: | 1830 - 1858, 2 December | | Born: | Great Britain | | Active: | Great Britain | | Gender: | Male |
Best known for his portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He took a series of the engineering feats of Brunel including the construction of the steamship Leviathan (Great Eastern).Preparing biographies
Robert Howlett produced portraits of Crimean War heroes, genre scenes and landscapes. His major work however, was to document the construction of the massive steamship the Great Eastern. His images were translated into engravings for The Illustrated Times. They reflected and stimulated the widespread interest in this feat of engineering. Howlett also produced the well known portrait of the Great Eastern’s creator and engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, standing in front of the ship's chains. This is perhaps one of the first examples of environmental portraiture.
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Date last updated: 11 Nov 2011.
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 | Robert Howlett: Crimean heroes |
|  | Robert Howlett: Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
|  | Robert Howlett: Valley of the Mole, Surrey |
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