William Hannan

William Hannan (1725–1772) was a Scottish drawer (artists) and decorative painter.

Life

William Hannan, a native of Scotland, was born on 23 June 1725 in Kelso, Roxburghshire, and baptised there on 25 June, the son of George Hannan and Hanna Pringle. He first apprenticed to a cabinet-maker, but his master encouraged him to cultivate a talent for drawing.

He was employed by Lord le Despenser to decorate his house at West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he painted several ceilings, the drawings for which were preserved in the library at Eton College.

Death Hannan was buried in the parish church in High Wycombe, the town in which he had died, on 29 July 1772; his wife, Mary, née Cockburn, had been buried there before him on 10 December 1771.