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John Hamilton Mortimer (17 September 1740 – 4 February 1779) was a British figure and landscape painter and printmaker, known for romantic paintings set in Italy, works depicting conversations, and works drawn in the 1770s portraying war scenes, similar to those of Salvator Rosa.
Mortimer became President of the Society of Artists in 1774, five years before his death at age 39.
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After John Hamilton Mortimer Self-Portrait
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John Hamilton Mortimer Spectators in the Gallery
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John Hamilton Mortimer Two Girls, in Profile, One Carrying a Jug
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John Hamilton Mortimer A Sea Monster with Fish
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John Hamilton Mortimer I. The Hero Decides to Seek his Fortune
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John Hamilton Mortimer Two Ecorchés
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John Hamilton Mortimer Skeletons and Ecorchés
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John Hamilton Mortimer Head of a Man in a Cloth Headdress
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Artist as subject
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Grand manner
Grand manner is an English term used widely from the eighteenth century to describe what was considered to be the …
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Romanticism
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Tate Papers
Gothic Romance and the Quixotic Hero:A Pageant for Henry Fuseli in 1783
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) was one of the most inventive artists of his age, exploring the strange and fantastic in a …
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