Highmore and his Paris Journal

 

 

Joseph Highmore and his Paris Journal.

 

Frequently interesting things drop into my e mail in box from other blogs.

 

here is a very recent example http://www.journal18.org/issue2/an-englishman-in-paris-joseph-highmore-at-the-academie-royale/

 

I have in the past posted pages on this blog on Highmore and his visit to Paris in 1734

and his letters of introduction particularly from Roubiliac and Gravelot. This is the first reference to Roubiliac in London other than his appearance on a list of members of White Bear Freemasons Lodge. This list should be treated with some scepticism as it is a copy and was perhaps written some time after 1730. (see below).

 

Roubiliac provided Highmore with a letter of introduction to the Sculptor Bousseau.

 

see - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/afew-notes-on-birth-and-early-career-of.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Gentleman's Magazine April 1780, Memoires of the Late Joseph Highmore.

 

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One of the four Aitches - the great English painters of the mid 18th Century.

Hogarth, Hudson, Highmore and Hayman.

 

 

Joseph Highmore

Self Portrait

49.8 x 39.8 cms

 

National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Australia

 

 

 

Graphite ink and watercolour.

108 x 99 mm.

 

Tate Gallery London.

 

Presented by Mrs Joan Highmore Blackhall and Dr Rosemary B. McConnell 1986 

Prov: By descent from the artist to the donors 

Lit: C.R. Beard, ‘Highmore's Scrap-Book’, Connoisseur, vol.93, 1934, pp.290–7, ‘

Highmore's Drawings for Pine's Processions and Ceremonies’, Connoisseur, vol.94, 1934, pp.9–15;

 

Alison S. Lewis, Joseph Highmore 1692–1780, PhD thesis, Harvard 1975 (University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor 1980), I, pp.230–1, II, pp.650–6, 659, III, figs.263–77, 279;

 

E. Einberg and J. Egerton, The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675–1709, Tate Gallery Collections, 11, 1988, pp.64–71, all but last six repr.; Warren Mild, Joseph Highmore of Holborn Row, Ardmore 1990

 

 

Although not specifically catalogued as such I believe this wonderful drawing to be a self portrait in later life  by Highmore.

 

 

 

The Artists Wife and Children

Joseph Highmore

 

Art Gallery of South Australia

Adelaide

 

 

Miss Susanna Highmore

The Artists Daughter

National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Australia

 

 

 

The Artists Son

Joseph Highmore

 

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.