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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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HIGHMORE, Joseph
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Pamela and Mr. B in the Summer House
Painting ID:: 19072 new3/HIGHMORE, Joseph_5QYAQc.jpg
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HIGHMORE, Joseph
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English Painter, 1692-1780
English painter and writer. The son of a coal merchant and the nephew of Thomas Highmore (1660-1720), Serjeant-Painter to the King, he was articled to an attorney on 18 July 1707. Bored with his duties, he attended Kneller's Academy from 1713 and in 1715 abandoned law, setting up as a portrait painter in the City of London. From 1720 he attended the St Martin's Lane Academy, where he was able to study contemporary French styles in art and design, particularly that of Gravelot. He read widely and mastered Brook Taylor's system of perspective (1715). He also attended William Cheselden's anatomy lectures and contributed designs to that author's Anatomy of the Human Body (1722). |
Pamela and Mr. B in the Summer House |
1744, oil on canvas, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Related Paintings::. | Road to the The Spaniards,Hampstead 2(9)July 1822 | Lettre avec un escargot sur une feuille (mk40) | Thunersee mit symmetrischer Spiegelung | |
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