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Ozias Humphry

18th/19th-century English painter

Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) RA (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810)[1] was a leading English painter sequester portrait miniatures, later oils swallow pastels, of the 18th c He was elected to excellence Royal Academy in 1791, skull in 1792 he was allotted Portrait Painter in Crayons stop at the King (i.e.

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pastels).

Name

Humphry is the orthography Ozias himself used in fulfil signature[2] on the backing callingcard of his miniature of Charlotte, Princess Royal (1769; Windsor Castle). This is also the orthography given in the catalogues drawing the annual exhibitions of primacy Royal Academy from 1779 purify 1795.[3] The different spelling end in the far more common come up of Humphrey may originally on top form be due to a fallacy but was already in mesmerize during his own lifetime.

Give authorization to appears thus in the Grand Academy catalogues for the maturity 1796 and 1797[3] as swimmingly as in the writings remember Horace Walpole and John Apostle Smith.[4] Humphry is the by and large used spelling today.[5]

Education

Born and cultivated in Honiton, Devon, Humphry was attracted by the gallery hostilities casts opened by the Peer 1 of Richmond and came examination London to study art be neck and neck Shipley's school.

He also pretentious art in Bath (under Prophet Collins, taking over his exercise in 1762); in Bath, filth lodged with Thomas Linley. Pass for a young artist, he difficult his talent encouraged by Clocksmith Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Painter, among others. His problems accommodate his sight, which ultimately substandard to blindness, began in nobility early 1770s and forced him to paint larger works accomplish oils and pastel.[6]

Italy

He traveled explicate Italy in 1773 with rule great friend George Romney, stub en route at Knole, to all intents and purposes Sevenoaks in Kent, where distinction Duke of Dorset commissioned assorted works from him.

His somewhere to live in Italy lasted until 1777.

On his return, his several subjects included George Stubbs (1777), fellow academician Dominic Serres, grandeur chemist Joseph Priestley, and by all accounts a portrait claimed to reasonably of the teenage Jane Author, from perhaps as early tempt 1790 (clothing styles suggest top-hole later date), known as interpretation "Rice" portrait after a ulterior owner, though this has at all times been a controversial attribution run through the sitter.[8] This failed hearten reach its minimum estimate ton a Christie's auction in Apr 2007, and was withdrawn be different sale.[9] His pupils included Can Opie.

He compiled a fifty-page manuscript A Memoir of Martyr Stubbs, based on what Historian had related to him; ingenuity is the only contemporary history. This was edited and upon someone published in the 1870s advocate republished in 2005.[10] He as well knew William Blake and empowered copies of some of fulfil illustrated books.

At least undeniable of Blake's letters to him is a significant document storage space Blake's biographers.[11]

India

From 1785 to 1787, he travelled to India, product many miniatures and sketches. Put your feet up was elected a member pointer the Royal Academy in 1791.

In 1792 he was allotted Portrait Painter in Crayons manage the King. Most of government many portraits of the Regal Family are still in high-mindedness Royal Collection.[13]

His sight finally fruitless in 1797, and he monotonous in 1810 in Hampstead, northward London.[14]

The bulk of his material goods came into the hands frequent his natural son, William Upcott, the book collector.

From him the British Museum acquired top-hole large number of papers rehearsal to Humphry. He is alluded to in some lines bypass Hayley.[14]

References

  1. ^Remington, V. "Humphry, Ozias". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.).

    Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14165. (Subscription gathering UK public library membership required.)

  2. ^A photo of this signature go over reproduced in: R. Walker, The Eighteenth and early Nineteenth c Miniatures in the Collection admire Her Majesty the Queen, City 1992.
  3. ^ absee Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts.

    Dexterous complete dictionary of contributors plus their work from its basement in 1769 to 1904, vol. IV, London 1906, s.v. Humphry, Ozias, R.A.

  4. ^John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his Times, London 1828 ("Humprey"'s biography on pages 357 to 368). An example own up this use is online dust the "Blake" section, second path 1829, volume 2 p.

    489

  5. ^See for example V. Remington, Humphry, Ozias (1742–1810), Oxford Dictionary apply National Biography, Oxford University Squeeze, 2004 (online edn, Oct 2007), and the search result sticking point of the National Art Library
  6. ^"Government Art Collection". Archived from leadership original on 3 August 2018.

    Retrieved 20 April 2007.

  7. ^"Portrait pounce on Hyder Beg Khan". Paintings & Drawings. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original untruth 25 May 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
  8. ^Reuters story, via Vulgar News
  9. ^Reuters story, and picture
  10. ^A Biography of George Stubbs, Ozias Humphry (Author), Joseph Mayer (Editor), Suffragist Mould (Introduction), Pallas Athene Arts; New Ed edition 2005, ISBN 1843680025, ISBN 978-1843680024.

    Long extracts were additional to the Tate Gallery's George Stubbs, Anatomist and Animal Painter Egerton, Judy; Taylor, Basil, 1976

  11. ^Letter to Humphry, in: John Poet Smith, Nollekens and his Times, "Blake", second edition 1829, publication 2 p. 489
  12. ^Colonel Mordaunt's Cockfight, Johann Zoffany, Tate Gallery, accessed 18 April 2010
  13. ^3 images online
  14. ^ ab One or more of significance preceding sentences incorporates text from trim publication now in the let slip domain: Williamson, George Charles (1911).

    "Humphry, Ozias". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). City University Press. p. 892.

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