Amos Green (1735–1807) was a British

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Life

Green was born at Halesowen, near

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, where his family owned a small property, and was apprenticed to Baskerville, the Birmingham printer. He was chiefly occupied in painting trays and boxes, but soon developed a love of painting and drawing. His specialty lay in flower and fruit pieces, some of the former being imitations of

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and

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. Later in life he took to landscape painting with some success. His residence at Halesowen brought him the friendship of

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, the poet, and of George, lord Lyttelton, both being neighbours. With another neighbour at Hagley, Anthony Deane, he became so intimate that he was received into his family as one of its members, and moved with them to Bergholt in

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, and eventually to

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. He was a good

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. In 1760 he sent two paintings of fruit to the first exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and exhibited again in 1763 and 1765. On 8 September 1796 he married at Bridlington Miss Lister, a native of

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. He eventually settled at Bridlington, but thenceforth did little important work in painting, spending time in sketching tours with his wife. He died at York on 10 June 1807, in his seventy-third year. He was buried at Fulford, and a monument to his memory was put up in

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at York. His widow published a memoir of him after his death, to which a portrait, engraved by W. T. Fry from a drawing by R. Hancock, is prefixed.

Works

There are three watercolour landscapes by him in the

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, including a view of Sidmouth Bay. Some of his works were made into prints, notably '' Partridges'', as a mezzotint by

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Family

He is sometimes stated to have been a brother of

Valentine Green Valentine Green (3 October 173929 July 1813) was a British mezzotinter and print publisher. Green trained under Robert Hancock, a Worcester engraver, after which he moved to London and began working as a mezzotint engraver. He began to exhibit ...

, the engraver, but this does not appear to be the case. Benjamin and John Green seem to have been his brothers. The latter, probably a pupil of the eldest James Basire, engraved plates from William Borlase's drawings for the 'Natural History of Cornwall' (1758), and also views for the 'Oxford Almanack,' besides some portraits, including one of Dr. Shaw, principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. William Upcott, ''English Topography''; Dodd, MS. History of English Engravers, British Library Add MS 33401)

References

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