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Liverseege, Henry
(b Manchester, 4 Sept 1803; d Manchester, 13 Jan 1832). English painter. The son of a mechanic, he was brought up from the age of 13 by his uncle, a wealthy mill-owner who encouraged his nephew’s talent for sketching and his love of literature and amateur dramatics. Sickly from birth, he was slight of frame with deformed shoulders and diseased lungs which led to his early death. As a young man he painted inn signs, silhouettes, miniatures and portraits, but in 1827 he showed at the Royal Manchester Institution three small pictures (untraced) of bandits; in the following five years he painted many cabinet-sized genre and literary subjects, mainly from Scott, Shakespeare and Cervantes. In 1828 he went to London, where he studied the Old Masters, but failed to gain entry to the Royal Academy Schools; he was in London again from 1829 to 1831.
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