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Wyatt was the son of Edward Wyatt (1757–1833), a well-known carver and gilder of Oxford Street, by his wife Anne Madox, and cousin of Matthew Cotes Wyatt, was born in Oxford Street, London, on 3 May 1795. His whole life was otherwise passed in Rome, where he died, unmarried, on 29 May 1850, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery. Some of his works were shown at the London exhibition of 1851, and were awarded a gold medal.
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