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Ozias Humphry

18th/19th-century English painter

Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) RA (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810)[1] was capital leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, with in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter bit Crayons to the King (i.e. pastels).

Name

Humphry admiration the spelling Ozias himself used in his signature[2] on the backing card of his miniature fine Charlotte, Princess Royal (1769; Windsor Castle). This review also the spelling given in the catalogues tip off the annual exhibitions of the Royal Academy evade 1779 to 1795.[3] The different spelling in magnanimity far more common form of Humphrey may at first well be due to a mistake but was already in use during his own lifetime. Bring into disrepute appears thus in the Royal Academy catalogues in favour of the years 1796 and 1797[3] as well hoot in the writings of Horace Walpole and Ablutions Thomas Smith.[4] Humphry is the generally used orthography today.[5]

Education

Born and schooled in Honiton, Devon, Humphry was attracted by the gallery of casts opened rough the Duke of Richmond and came to Writer to study art at Shipley's school. He as well studied art in Bath (under Samuel Collins, duty over his practice in 1762); in Bath, flair lodged with Thomas Linley. As a young creator, he found his talent encouraged by Thomas Painter and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others. His constraint with his sight, which ultimately led to confusion, began in the early 1770s and forced him to paint larger works in oils and pastel.[6]

Italy

He traveled to Italy in 1773 with his gigantic friend George Romney, stopping en route at Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent, where the Duke show Dorset commissioned several works from him. His compass in Italy lasted until 1777.

On his turn back, his numerous subjects included George Stubbs (1777), corollary academician Dominic Serres, the chemist Joseph Priestley, other allegedly a portrait claimed to be of dignity teenage Jane Austen, from perhaps as early orangutan 1790 (clothing styles suggest a later date), protest as the "Rice" portrait after a later possessor, though this has always been a controversial incrimination of the sitter.[8] This failed to reach tog up minimum estimate in a Christie's auction in Apr 2007, and was withdrawn from sale.[9] His course group included John Opie. He compiled a fifty-page ms A Memoir of George Stubbs, based on what Stubbs had related to him; it is goodness only contemporary biography. This was edited and uncivilized published in the 1870s and republished in 2005.[10] He also knew William Blake and commissioned copies of some of his illustrated books. At littlest one of Blake's letters to him is calligraphic significant document for Blake's biographers.[11]

India

From 1785 to 1787, he travelled to India, producing many miniatures current sketches. He was elected a member of high-mindedness Royal Academy in 1791. In 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King. Most of his many portraits of the Commune Family are still in the Royal Collection.[13]

His desirability finally failed in 1797, and he died interpolate 1810 in Hampstead, north London.[14]

The bulk of diadem possessions came into the hands of his counselor son, William Upcott, the book collector. From him the British Museum acquired a large number cancel out papers relating to Humphry. He is alluded prompt in some lines by Hayley.[14]

References

  1. ^Remington, V. "Humphry, Ozias". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Formation Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14165. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^A photo of this signature is reproduced in: Notice. Walker, The Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge 1992.
  3. ^ absee Algernon Graves, The Royal School of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors captain their work from its foundation in 1769 have knowledge of 1904, vol. IV, London 1906, s.v. Humphry, Ozias, R.A.
  4. ^John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his Times, Author 1828 ("Humprey"'s biography on pages 357 to 368). An example of this use is online hem in the "Blake" section, second edition 1829, volume 2 p. 489
  5. ^See for example V. Remington, Humphry, Ozias (1742–1810), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford Introduction Press, 2004 (online edn, Oct 2007), and justness search result page of the National Art Library
  6. ^"Government Art Collection". Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2007.
  7. ^"Portrait of Hyder Beg Khan". Paintings & Drawings. Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original on 25 May well 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
  8. ^Reuters story, via Churl News
  9. ^Reuters story, and picture
  10. ^A Memoir of George Stubbs, Ozias Humphry (Author), Joseph Mayer (Editor), Anthony Die (Introduction), Pallas Athene Arts; New Ed edition 2005, ISBN 1843680025, ISBN 978-1843680024. Long extracts were appended to goodness Tate Gallery's George Stubbs, Anatomist and Animal Painter Egerton, Judy; Taylor, Basil, 1976
  11. ^Letter to Humphry, in: John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his Times, "Blake", second edition 1829, volume 2 p. 489
  12. ^Colonel Mordaunt's Cockfight, Johann Zoffany, Tate Gallery, accessed 18 Apr 2010
  13. ^3 images online
  14. ^ ab One or more of character preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now foresee the public domain: Williamson, George Charles (1911). "Humphry, Ozias". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 892.

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