(1702 - 1877)
Animal painter and inventor Charles Hancock exhibited mainly sporting subjects at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street and New Water-Colour Society between 1819 and 1868. His address changed many times during his career; he lived in Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and at several London addresses. In 1842, he was supported by written declarations from William Day and Thomas Fairland during a dispute with lithographer Charles Joseph Hullmandel over Hullmandel's patent for the lithotint (a technique imitating wash drawing). In 1844, ‘The London Gazette’ reported that Hancock had been granted a patent for his invention of ‘improvements in Cork and other Stoppers’. He died in London in 1877.
