Henry Room

[1] Room was in London in the late 1820s, sharing a studio with Peter Hollins in Old Bond Street.

[3] He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1826 onwards and completed many portraits of missionaries, academics and reformers which were engraved by John Cochran.

He died in London on 27 August 1850, aged 48, and was buried in the Derby family grave in Highgate Cemetery.

He painted a portrait of Thomas Clarkson for the Central Negro Emancipation Committee, and also two groups of the Interview of Queen Adelaide with the Madagascar Princes at Windsor, and The Caffre Chiefs' Examination before the House of Commons Committee.

[4] He painted a series of medical men for Thomas Joseph Pettigrew's Biographical Memoirs (1839).

Henry Room, self-portrait
Grave of Henry Room in Highgate Cemetery
Engraving (1844) of the 1835 Parliamentary delegation from South Africa, led by John Philip by Richard Woodman after Henry Room