Art Wanted

Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn

Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn (- 1778) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire / United Kingdom, England.  Joseph Blackburn is known for Portrait-full figure-families, drapery.

Portrait painter Joseph Blackburn was likely born in Great Britain. His parentage and details of his early life are unknown. The earliest record of Blackburn as a painter is his arrival in Bermuda in 1752. During his two-year stay there he painted at least twenty-five portraits for the Pigott, Jones, Harvey, Tucker, Gilbert, and Butterfield families.  A number of these pictures remain on the island in the hands of descendants.

In the best of these, such as Mrs. Thomas Jones, Blackburn exhibited a considerable skill at painting lace and ribbon and other details of dress.  This ability has led some scholars to speculate that he was first trained as a drapery painter in a larger English studio.

Blackburn's whereabouts after leaving Bermuda for the American colonies on the mainland are well documented, as he signed and dated over half of the more than one hundred portraits by him that survive. He apparently arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5800 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 23 auction lots for Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn (of which 12 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 1 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn in 0 of its research Essays. Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn has 0 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Joseph (Jonathan) Blackburn available:    Ralph Earl,  William Prior,  Gilbert Stuart,  Thomas Sully,  John La Farge,  Rembrandt Peale,  Gaston Lachaise,  James Carroll Beckwith,  William Merritt Chase,  Yasuo Kuniyoshi,  William Bradford,  Samuel Lancaster Gerry,  Reynolds Beal,  Emil (Soren Emil) Carlsen,  Arthur Bowen Davies,  Joseph H Davis,  Reginald Marsh,  Zedekiah Belknap,  Mary Stevenson Cassatt,  Ammi Phillips,  John Joseph Enneking,  Boris Lovet-Lorski,  Paul Starrett Sample,  William James Glackens