Biographical notes:
Occupation: Artist, lithographer & painter.
Addresses: 1834 - 1 York St; 1845, 1847, 1851 & at death of father (1854) - 98 Great Russell St, LON; At 1861 census - 29 Wimpole Street, Marylebone, LON; At 1871, 1881 & 1891 censuses - 6 Blomfield Crescent, LON.
Studied painting at the Royal Academy. Friend of Charles Dickens. Exhibited in the Royal Academy 1846-87 & the British Institution 1848-67. Appointed lithographer to Queen Victoria in 1854 with a studio in Osborne House. Produced lithographic likenesses of eminent physicians & surgeons, Queen Victoria & Prince Albert & illustrated books. Mentioned in the Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists (Mallelieu) and the Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs (Benezit). About 25 lithographs in the National Portrait Gallery, London, ENG. Gave his paint box to his great-niece Dorothy Travers Pope.
Probate granted at the London Registry on 19 Jun 1895; value: £2238 16s 10d; executors: Helena Jane Maguire & Agnes Bertha Maguire spinsters.
Reference documents:
1841 census return (Henry Maguire).
1847 marriage certificate.
1851 census return (Henry Maguire).
1861 census return.
1871 census return.
1881 census return.
1891 census return.
1895 death registration index record.
1913 - A Dictionary of Irish Artists.
Wikipedia entry.