HURLSTONE, FREDERICK YEATES English painter, was born in London, his father being a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle. F. Y. Hurlstone studied under Sir W. Beechey, Sir T. Lawrence and B. R. Haydon, and in 1820 became a student at the Royal Academy, where he soon began to exhibit. In 1831 he was elected to the Society of British Artists, of which in 1835 he became president; it was to their exhibitions that he sent most of his pictures. He died in London on June 1o, 1869. His historical paintings and portraits were very numerous.