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Joseph Highmore

1692–1780

Equestrian Portrait of King George II c.1743–5
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71 artworks by Joseph Highmore
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Biography

Joseph Highmore (13 June 1692 – 3 March 1780) was an English painter of portraits, conversation pieces and history subjects, illustrator and author. After retiring from his career as a painter at the age of 70, he published art historical and critical articles.

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I: Mr B. Finds Pamela Writing

Joseph Highmore
1743–4

VII: Pamela in the Bedroom with Mrs Jewkes and Mr B.

Joseph Highmore
1743–4

IX: Pamela is Married

Joseph Highmore
1743–4

XI: Pamela Asks Sir Jacob Swinford’s Blessing

Joseph Highmore
1743–4

A Gentleman in a Brown Velvet Coat

Joseph Highmore
1747

Mr Oldham and his Guests

Joseph Highmore
c.1735–45
On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

The Good Samaritan

Joseph Highmore
1744

A Standing Hound, Looking Up

Joseph Highmore
date not known
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Lecture Diagram: Perspective Method for a Cube by Joseph Highmore

Joseph Mallord William Turner
c.1823–28
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Mr Oldham and his Guests

Joseph Highmore
c.1735–45
On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

Portrait of a Man in a Cap

Joseph Highmore
date not known
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