All HIGHMORE, Joseph's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
7484 Mr. Oldham and his Friends f Mr. Oldham and his Friends f c. 1750 Oil on canvas, 105 x 130 cm Tate Gallery, London
19072 Pamela and Mr. B in the Summer House Pamela and Mr. B in the Summer House 1744, oil on canvas, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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). . Related Artists to : | Zayn AL Din | Sir Augustus Wall Callcott | Charles james lewis | Kate Elizabeth Bunce | MASACCIO |