Artist: Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1802)

Object type: Painting

Genre: portrait

Medium: Oil on canvas

Original Dimensions:36 in. x 27 in.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery

Source/Photographer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy

National Portrait Gallery: NPG 1260

About James heath

James heath was born in london on April 19, 1757. His father, George heath, is a farmer from Horton in Staffordshire and his mom, which we recognize her maiden call, hunball. Heath learns engraving with joseph collyer, a taskmaster, then considered an eminence very diligent, heath received exceptional technical ability. His early prints are a number of the pics in the edited collection of the works of Horace walpole and numerous pictures to illustrate the works and correspondence of lord orford.

He become then hired to engrave the designs of Thomas stothard for novelists' magazine james harrison and poets turned into of robert bell the flavor and dexterity with which he carried out those small illustrations gave this style of illustration first-rate reputation . He married round 1777 elizabeth, daughter of the reverend thomas, a welsh clergyman, with whom he had a son, george heath . James heath intense numerous drawings or art work Stothard, Robert smirke and others that can be observed inside the british classics john sharpe, the female's poetical magazine , the arabian nights ( the Arabian nights ) Forster, Leonidas of Richard glover and lots of similar versions of famous works . In 1780, he exhibited three prints on the exhibition of the Society of Artists of Great Britain . In 1786, heath changed into hired by means of john boydell for his formidable Boydell Shakespeare gallery venture to engrave art work for the folio posted by using boydell.

In 1791 he changed into elected associate engraver of the royal academy and, in 1794, he become appointed history engraver of king george iii , a publish he retained below successive rulers until his loss of life. Around 1822, he retired, and bought his stock of proofs and other engravings at public sale that year . James heath died in top notch Coram road, London, on November 15, 1834 . He leaves two sons, together with charles ( 1785-1848), an illegitimate son, who becomes a good engraver, and a daughter, Mrs. Hamilton, who also has “a few printmaking abilities”

Many institutions hold works by James Heath, including the British Museum , Tate Gallery , National Gallery of Art , National Portrait Gallery , Royal Academy , National Gallery of Scotland , Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Minneapolis Institute of Art , the National Gallery of Canada , the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec , theAuckland Art Gallery , Te Papa Tongarewa or the National Maritime Museum Sydney

• Lionel Henry Cust , "Wheatley, Francis" in Dictionary of National Biography , vol. 60, Smith, Elder & Co.,1899 ( read on Wikisource )

• " Print Canterbury Pilgrims "

• The portrait of Lavinia Vecellio is an oil on canvas (1540s, 85 × 75 cm ) in the Capodimonte museum .

• The painting The Death of Nelson is an oil on canvas (1806, 182.5 × 247.5 cm ) in the Walker Art Gallery .

• The Dead Soldier painting is an oil on canvas (circa 1789, 101.6 × 127 cm ) housed at the Yale British Art Center .

• See also the index of all the portraits included in the print of Heath [ archive ] on the site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art .

• The painting The Holy Family is an oil on canvas (c. 1665-1670, 240 × 190 cm ) in the Louvre museum .

• The portrait of Lemuel Francis Abbott (nd, location unknown) was interpreted by John Raphael Smith in mezzotint (1796, National Portrait Gallery )

• The painting La Madone d'Orléans is an oil on canvas (c. 1506-1507, 31.7 × 23.3 cm ) kept at the Musée Condé .