| Historical painter. Born Kensington c. 1745; died Rome 13 September 1795. Pupil of Casali and West, for whom he made copies. Won premiums for drawings at SA 1762 and 1765; and for history pictures 1766, 1770 and 1773. Exh. FS 1767 (a portrait); SA 1767-73 (histories). Entered RA Schools 1769. Went to Rome 1774, where he remained till his death. One of the two pictures he painted at Rome for BoydelPs Shakespeare Gallery is in the Soane Museum and is remarkably feeble {Nancy Presley, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, exh. cat., BAC Yale, 1979, 79-81). He came second in a competition for the ceiling of the great hall of the Ducal Palace at Genoa, 1783, for which there are drawings at Berlin. |
