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John Martin

John Martin (1789 - 1854) was active/lived in England.  John Martin is known for Romantic painting, engraving, illustration.

John Martin (19 July 1789 - 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic* painter, engraver* and illustrator.  He was born in July 1789, in a one-room family cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the 4th son of Fenwick Martin, a one time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed instead under Boniface Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Muss. With his master, Martin moved from Newcastle to London in 1806, where he married at the age of nineteen, and supported himself by giving drawing lessons, and by painting in watercolours, and on china and glass—his only surviving painted plate is now in a private collection in England. His leisure was occupied in the study of perspective and architecture.

Martin began to supplement his income by painting sepia* watercolours. He sent his   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6193 characters.]  Artist bio

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