Henry Salt
(1780–1827) English artist, traveller, diplomat, and egyptologist (1780-1827)
Henry Salt (1780–1827) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Henry Salt belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
Henry Salt was born in Lichfield and died in Desouk. Henry Salt worked in Cairo. Henry Salt became a member of Royal Society of London and Academy of Sciences of Turin. Henry Salt was awarded Fellow of the Royal Society.
The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has one work by Henry Salt with a free image. The dated work is from 1809. Vanderbilt Museum of Art holds at least one work by Henry Salt.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jan Damel, John Wesley Jarvis, Aleksej Venetsianov, Edward Hicks, and Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard.