Mortimer, John Hamilton
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Mortimer, John Hamilton (1740–79). English painter. He studied under
Hudson and became a lifelong friend of his fellow pupil
Joseph Wright. Like Wright, he painted portraits as well as subject pieces of a pioneering
Romantic nature. His
conversation pieces bear comparison with those of
Zoffany, but he found his true bent in the 1770s with pictures representing the exploits of soldiers and banditti in the ‘savage’ style of
Salvator Rosa (
Bandit Taking Up his Post,
c.1775, Detroit Inst. of Arts). Many of his paintings have disappeared and are now known only through engravings. Mortimer led an eccentric and disorderly life, but he became more settled after marrying in 1775 and his early death cut short the career of one of the most individual British painters of his generation.
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/15/1995; 700+ words
; ...playwright and novelist, 1862; Edwin Muir, poet and translator, 1887; Katherine Anne Porter, author, 1890; Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, playwright and novelist, 1891; Joseph Cheshire Cotten, screen and stage actor, 1905; James Mason...
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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