in 1833, and again, together with that of General Sir John MacLeod, at the National Portrait Exhibition of 1868. He was always much opposed to the constitution and management of the Royal Academy, and gave evidence before at the Parliamentary enquiry into the constitution of the Royal Academy in 1835 and again in 1836 to the select committee of the House of Commons. Hurlstone never became a member of the Royal Academy. He was elected president of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1835 and held the office until his death sending 326 works to their exhibitions. Hurlstone died at 9 Chester Street, Belgravia, London, on 10 June 1869, in his sixty-ninth year, and was buried in Norwood cemetery. Family and descendants In 1836 Hurlstone married fellow artist Jane Coral who exhibited some watercolour drawings and portraits at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists between 1846 and 1850, but from 1850 to 1856 she contributed to the latter exhibition only fancy subjects in oil-colours. She died on 2 Oct. 1858, leaving issue two sons, one of whom was also an artist. Hurlstone's grandson, William Martin Yeates Hurlstone, became a moderately well-known composer. Some representative Works A Venetian Page (1824) The Enchantress Armida (1831) Eros (1836) Prisoner of Chillon (1837) The Peasant Girl of Sorrento (1847) A Boy of Venice (1853) Boabdil (1854) Portrait of the 7th Earl of Cavan (1833) Notes References Attribution: External links Hurlstone online (ArtCyclopedia) Sancho Panza Attended by his State Physician from the Tate Gallery Self Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, London 1800 births 1869 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects English portrait painters Members of the Royal Society of British Artists 19th-century English male artists