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Author: Parsey, Arthur

Biography:

PARSEY, Arthur (1791-1857: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 27 Mar. 1791 at St. Mary, Whitechapel, London, the son of Jacob Parsey, stationer, and Elizabeth Bilke. The family lived in Leman Street, near the Tower of London. Nothing is known of his education. The Deserted Village Restored (1815) was printed for the author, with his father selling the work at his premisses in Whitechapel Road. He married Mary Charlotte Morse (1788-1864) on 25 Feb. 1818 at St. Mary, Whitechapel. They had three sons and two daughters. At the time of his marriage he was a clerk. As an expert witness in an 1843 court case he described himself as “artist and professor of penmanship.” In 1851 he was living with his family at 455 New Oxford Street, Marylebone, giving his occupation as artist, miniature portrait painter. He died on 3 Dec. 1857 at 3 Crescent Place, Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens), Bloomsbury, aged 67. His wife survived him and died in 1864. In addition to the work listed here, he published The Art of Miniature Painting on Ivory (1831), Perspective Rectified (1836), and The Science of Vision; or, Natural Perspective! Containing the True Language of the Eye (1840). His portraits and paintings come up at auction from time to time but do not command high prices. (ancestry.co.uk 6 Mar. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 6 Mar. 2023; Globe 14 July 1815; Evening Mail 25 Dec. 1843; MH 8 Dec. 1857) AA

 

Books written (1):

London/ Ipswich/ Bury St. Edmunds: for the author by J. Nunn, J. Hatchard, Gale and Fenner, J. M. Richardson, H. T. Hodgson, J. Parsey/ J. Raw/ J. Deck, 1815