John Robinson (painter)
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John Robinson (1715–1745) was an English portrait-painter and drawer (artists).
John Robinson was born at Bath in 1715. He studied under John Vanderbank, and attained some success as a portrait-painter. Having married a wife with a fortune, he, on the death of Charles Jervas, purchased that painter's house in Cleveland Court. He thus inherited a fashionable practice; but he had not skill enough to keep it up. He dressed many of his sitters in the costume of portraits by Vandyck.[1]
Robinson died in 1745, before completing his thirtieth year. A portrait of Lady Charlotte Finch by Robinson was engraved in mezzotint by John Faber the Younger, and the title of the print subsequently altered to The Amorous Beauty.[1]
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- Cust, Lionel Henry (1897). "Robinson, John (1715-1745)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 26.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - Cust, L. H.; Herring, Sarah (2004). "Robinson, John (1715–1745), portrait painter". In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). "Robinson, John I". In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press.
- Redgrave, Samuel; Redgrave, Francis Margaret (1878). "ROBINSON, John". In A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. London: George Bell & Sons.
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