Anthony Highmore (1719–1799) was an English draughtsman.
Life
He was the only son of
Joseph Highmore
Joseph Highmore (13 June 1692 – 3 March 1780) was an English painter of portraits, conversation pieces and history subjects, illustrator and author. After retiring from his career as a painter at the age of 70, he published art historica ...
, known for five views of
Hampton Court
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, engraved by
John Tinney
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. He was deaf, and resided mostly at
Canterbury
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, where he studied theology. He died on 3 October 1799, in his eighty-first year.
Family
Highmore married early in life Anna Maria, daughter of the Rev. Seth Ellis of
Brampton, Derbyshire
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. They had fifteen children, one of whom was
Anthony Highmore the legal writer.
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1719 births
1799 deaths
British draughtsmen