Beverley, William Roxby

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Beverley, William Roxby (c.1814–89), English scene painter, who first worked for the Theatre Royal, Manchester. Later he did good work for Mme Vestris at the Lyceum, achieving his greatest success in Planché's extravaganza The Island of Jewels (1849). Beverley's long and fruitful association with Drury Lane, where his best work was done for the annual pantomime, began in 1854 and lasted through successive managements until 1885. He also worked intermittently elsewhere, and for Charles Kean at the Princess's designed the sets for King John, Henry IV, Part One, and Macbeth, and for an elaborate production of Milton's Comus. Next to Stanfield, Beverley, a one-surface painter firmly opposed to ‘built stuff’, was the most distinguished English scene painter of the 19th century.

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