Background
Evans was born at Eton on 4 December 1798, was son of Samuel Evans, a landscape-painter originally from Flintshire, who had settled at Windsor.
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William Evans
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William Evans was educated at Eton, and originally studied medicine, but eventually turned to art, and became a pupil of William Collins, Resident Advisor
Career
Samuel Evans he was selected to teach drawing to the daughters of George III, and eventually became drawing-master at Eton College. There are some views of North Wales and Windsor by him which have been engraved. He left Eton about 1818 for Droxford, Hampshire, where he died in about 1835.
In 1818 Doctor Keate appointed him drawing-master at Eton in his father"s place.
He continued to be a constant contributor to their exhibitions. He made some large drawings of the Eton "Montem", which were engraved.
At that time the oppidans at Eton were still lodged in houses kept by ladies, known as "dames", a system which placed the boys under little or no control. lieutenant being Doctor Hawtrey"s wish to place the boarding-houses under the charge of men connected with the work of the school, the Review
Thomas Carter, the Review
Edward Coleridge, and the Review George Selwyn persuaded Evans to take one of these houses and retain his former position as drawing-master. This Evans did in 1840, working with great energy.
Evans died, after some years" ill-health, at Eton on New Year"s Eve, 1877.
Membership
He was elected an associate of the Old Society of Painters in Water-colours on 11 February 1828, in which year he exhibited drawings of Windsor, Eton, Thames fishermen, Barmouth, and Llanberis, and on 7 June 1830 he was elected a member of the society.
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United Kingdom of Great Bri