John Haslem (artist)
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John Haslem (1808–1884), was an English china and enamel painter, and writer. He painted many
portrait miniatures A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century el ...
of
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, the Royal Family and other nobility.


Life and work

Haslem was born in 1808 at Carrington in Cheshire (now part of
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). He left home as a young boy to live in
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with his uncle James Thomason, who went on to manage the Derby China factory. He studied under local ceramic artist, ''George Hancock'', and first devoted himself to flower-painting, but subsequently took to figure-painting, in which he was very successful. Haslem painted the head of
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for the
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as a present for the King of Greece, and at the Duke's instigation came to London and studied under
Edmund Thomas Parris Edmund Thomas Parris (3 June 1793 – 27 November 1873) was an English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer. He was appointed history painter to Queen Adelaide, Queen Consort of William ...
. He copied many pictures in miniature on enamel, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1836 to 1865. In 1842 he won a medal from the
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for a portrait painted on china. He painted a small enamel portrait of Queen Victoria, and this led to many other commissions from the Royal Family and nobility, especially for copies of ancestral portraits. Papers relating to Haslem's career including a letter of his are held by Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Haslem was also in demand, by jewellers and art dealers, and on one occasion was employed to paint a set of enamels in imitation of Petitot, which were so successful that they appeared in the miniature exhibitions at the South Kensington Museum, in 1862 and 1865, as the work of Petitot himself. In 1857, Haslem returned to Derby to live with his uncle and remained there until his death in 1884. In 1876 he had published a history of "''The Old Derby China Factory''" (pub. George Bell). Haslem gave his collection of porcelain to Derby Museum including the ''Prentice Plate'' which he had been lucky enough to buy in London. The ''Prentice Plate'' was used by apprentices at
porcelain painting China painting, or porcelain painting, is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain, developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcel ...
in Derby and this plate was a demonstration of William Billingsley's skills when he worked there. This plate is now on display at Derby Museum.Label for the 'Prentice Plate in Derby Museum, read July 2011


References


External links


John Haslem on ArtnetPortrait miniatures by John Haslem
( Royal Collection)
Portrait of Lyon Playfair
(Enamel, 1854 - National Portrait Gallery, London)
The education of Cupid
(Copy of a work by
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, Pencil and
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, 1844 - Christie's) {{DEFAULTSORT:Haslem, John 1808 births 1884 deaths People from Cheshire 19th-century English painters English male painters Portrait miniaturists English enamellers 19th-century enamellers Porcelain painters Flower artists People associated with Derby Museum and Art Gallery People from Derby 19th-century English male artists