Joseph Slater (17 June 1782 – 25 February 1837) was a

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portrait

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and draughtsman.

Life

Born in

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, Joseph Slater was a son of Joseph Slater of

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(1750–1805), portraitist and decorator and Ann (born Wane). Slater worked as a portraitist in London, exhibiting his first picture at the

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in 1803, where his portraits were exhibited regularly between 1806 and 1833. Since 1813 he was a portraitist at the

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Club in London. Many of Joseph Slater's portraits were published as lithographs by his brother

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. They both worked since 1805 in the John Bacon's studio at 17 Newman Street. Later the brothers moved down in their own studio with a shop at 70 Newman Street. Slater worked predominantly in pencil, crayons and watercolor. He was very prolific: his heritage counts about two hundred portraits. He died in

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aged 55 years old.

Family

Two brothers of Joseph Slater were also artists:

(1784–1846), miniature painter and line engraver and John Slater (1786–1836), miniature, portrait and flower painter. His other brother

Michael Atwell Slater Michael Atwell Slater (died 2 February 1842) was a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor particularly noted for his survey work in the north-east of England and the east of Scotland. Biography Slater's date of birth is not known. His fathe ...

(died 1842) was a

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officer, a captain, a member of The

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and an explorer of the coasts of

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and

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References

Sources

External links

Works by Joseph Slater
at the

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* 1782 births 1837 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters British draughtsmen 19th-century British male artists {{UK-painter-stub