C. F. Wicksteed

Wicksteed was a London painter who specialised in scenes from popular life, usually populated with distinctive characters. He exhibited at The Royal Academy from 1802 onwards and at the British Institution. His surviving work is today scarce.  There is a good example from 1838 in the Parliamentary Art Collection, The Election: The New Member Addresses the People.  There is an engraving of Stoke Park, Wiltshire after one of his paintings which suggests another aspect of his work.

Since at least 1824, when he first exhibited at the British Institution, he lived at addresses first in Soho and later in Covent Garden.  In 1841 he was living at 12 Catherine Street. While his background is largely unknown, he was steeped in the creative milieu of Covent Garden and his observation (though milder) is in the tradition of Hogarth.