William Owen

(1769-1825)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Owen, William, 1769-1825 NRA: Owen William (1769-1825) Painter DNB: Owen, William (1769-1825), painter LBT ID: WiOwen1825 VIAF ID: 5199500 LOC ID: nr2001019115	B/BAP: 1769-11-03 DIED: 1825-02-11
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English portrait painter who began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1792, to which he was elected in 1806; he was principal portrait-painter to the Prince Regent.
REFERENCES TO William Owen: William Wordsworth to Samuel Rogers, 14 June [1831] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter II. 1831-34.