Anthony Highmore
Illustration — Anthony Highmore, painting attributed to Joseph Highmore Anthony Highmore (1719–1799) was an English draughtsman. • Illustration — St. James's Park and the Banqueting House in London, by Anthony Highmore
Anthony Highmore
Anthony Highmore · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1719 · London.
- Died
- 1799
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- English
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He was the only son of Joseph Highmore, known for five views of Hampton Court, engraved by John Tinney. He was deaf, and resided mostly at Canterbury, where he studied theology. He died on 3 October 1799, in his eighty-first year.
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Anthony Highmore was a watercolourist, draughtsman and painter, born in 1719 in London and died in 1799 in Canterbury. Both events are recorded by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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Highmore married early in life Anna Maria, daughter of the Rev. Seth Ellis of Brampton, Derbyshire. They had fifteen children, one of whom was Anthony Highmore the legal writer.
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