John Rising (1756–1815) was an English portrait and subject painter.

Life

Rising had a large practice in London, and was a regular exhibitor at the

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from 1785 until his death. Among his subjects were William Wilberforce, Lord Melville, Lord Nelson, Sir William Blackstone, Arthur Young, and

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. Many of his portraits were engraved. The portrait of Blackstone went to the

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, that of the first Marquis of Downshire to Hatfield House, and that of Wilberforce to the Earl of Crawford. Rising is said to have at one time assisted Sir Joshua Reynolds with the backgrounds of his pictures. He died in 1815, aged 59.< Rising also painted fancy and domestic subjects: ''Juvenile Employment'', ''Ballad Singers'', ''The Sentimental Shepherd'', and ''The Infant Narcissus''. Some of them were mezzotinted by

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, John Jones, and others.

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