British 1817-1904 George Frederick Watts Galleries  Related Paintings of George Frederick :. | After Confiscation | The Judgment of Paris | The Irish Famine | Portrait of Lady Wolverton,nee Georgiana Tufnell,half length,earing a red dress (mk37) | Adriadne on the Island of Naxos |
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Carl Reichert
Austrian 1836-1918
Gian Battista Viola
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1576-1622
HIGHMORE, Joseph
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).