John Curtis () was an English
landscape painter.
Career
John Curtis was a pupil of
William Marlow
William Marlow (1740 – 14 January 1813) was an English landscape and marine painter and etcher.
Life
Marlow was born in Southwark, London. He spent five years as a pupil of the marine painter Samuel Scott, and also studied at the St. ...
at Twickenham. In 1790 he exhibited at the
Royal Academy
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''A View of Netley Abbey'', and was an occasional exhibitor in the following years. In 1797 he departed from his usual style, exhibiting a picture of the ''
Indefatigable'' and ''
Amazon
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'' frigates under
Sir Edward Pellew engaging ''Les Droits de l'Homme'', a French seventy-four. Nothing is known of his subsequent career. Some of his views were engraved.
[Cust 1888, pp. 346–347.]
References
Sources
* Cust, L. H.; Lambert, R. J. (2004)
"Curtis, John (fl. 1790–1797), landscape painter" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
* Graves, Algernon (1884). ''
A Dictionary of Artists Who Have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings From 1760 to 1880''. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 59.
* Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011)
"Curtis, John" ''
Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
* Redgrave, Samuel (1878).
"Curtis, John". ''A Dictionary of Artists of the English School''. New ed. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 110.
"John Curtis" ''
The British Museum
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''. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
Attribution:
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18th-century English painters
English landscape painters
18th-century births