Studio - Market Street, Manchester 1830s

[Piltdown_man]

In my ongoing search into the life of my ggg granduncle I am trying to research the period he lived, trained and worked in Manchester.

My starting point is trying to find out whether there was even an artist's studio in Market Street in Manchester in the period 1832-1835.

I have checked the directories that are on Ancestry in the 1830s along with checking The British Newspaper Archive but have had no luck with either.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Is it not possible that any studio may still be in use a little later, and so show up on the 1841 census? Manchester seems to have good records on things like landuse and buildings in Victorian times, perhaps they have equally good ones for a little earlier, if you consult the local library's local history section?

[heywood]

Hello,
I read in your other thread that he trained in Manchester and opened a studio. Was it definitely in Market Street?

Heywood

[Piltdown_man]

Yes, it is Market Street (according to an article written in 1882) and the name is the only information I have regarding the location.

Unfortunately though I am not in Manchester so am unable research this myself at the moment. I would need to pay for research to be carried out by Manchester archives to uncover something; which I am also unable to do at the moment.

[sarah]

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[heywood]

Find my Past has Manchester Rates records but looking at the indexes, I am not sure there is anything and you have looked at directories yourself.
Is it definitely limited to that time period and just Market Street?

[Piltdown_man]

In 1882 a long obituary about Richard Waller's life was printed in the Leeds Mercury. Not everything in it is accurate but there is mention (only a few lines) of his in time Manchester. Until I uncover more on the period in his life Market Street, a few names of men that he knew whilst there and mention of him putting pictures in the Manchester Exhibition are the only pieces of information I have.

He finished an apprenticeship in 1832/3 and the same article states he moved to Manchester after the death of is uncle. He married in 1836 and had a child back in Skipton in Yorkshire in 1837 so must have returned before that. The article states he was in Manchester for 2 years.

[emmsthheight]

Hi

We've traced a few artists from our area who've ended up in Manchester.

Are your articles from the newspaper archives?  If not, it's worth a look.

You can search free and just pay for a few days use.

We've had quite na few reports about exhibitions, obituaries and so on.

Maybe that's where you looked.

Best wishes

Emms

[elzabels]

Have you tried google books?
THE ARTIST - Page 215
Mr. RICHARD WALLER, of Leeds, died on the 18th June, in his 71st year. Mr. Waller was an artist well known and much respected in Yorkshire. About thirty years ago he made a zealous and not wholly unsuccessful attempt to establish an ...

History of Skipton - Page 263

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z78HAAAAQAAJ
William Harbutt Dawson - 1882 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
RICHARD WALLER, Artist. Only during the present year, 1882, has this notable native of Skipton passed away. Richard Waller was born in 1811. He was very early sent to a school in Newmarket-street, conducted by Mr. James Hall, the parish ...

Trade Directory on line
http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16445coll4