![William Henry Bartlett - The Neighbours [1881]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3864/14774380742_9faa5c3538_o.jpg)
William Henry Bartlett (London, March 26, 1809 - Malta, September 13, 1854) was a British artist. Bartletts primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Many views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles, and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed.” He died of fever on board of a French ship off the coast of Malta returning from his last trip to the Near East, in 1854.
[Private Collection - Oil on canvas, 99.06 x 128.27 cm]