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James Northcote

James Northcote (1746 - 1831) was active/lived in England.  James Northcote is known for Portrait, history and lofty-subject painting.

James Northcote RA (22 October 1746, in Plymouth – 13 July 1831, in London) was a British painter. He was born in Plymouth, and was apprenticed to his father, Samuel Northcote, a watchmaker. In his spare time, he drew and painted. In 1769 he left his father's work and set up as a portrait painter. Four years later he went to London and was admitted as a pupil into the studio and house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. At the same time he attended the Royal Academy schools.

In 1775 he left Reynolds' studio, and about two years later, having made some money by portrait painting back in Devon, he went to study in Italy. On his return to England, three years later, he revisited his native county, then settled in London, where John Opie and Henry Fuseli were his rivals. He was elected associate of the Academy in 1786, and full academician in the following spring.



The Young Princes Murdered in the Tower, his first important work on a historical subject, dates from   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2197 characters.]  Artist bio

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