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Thomas Henry Illidge (26 September 1799 – 13 May 1851) was an English
portrait painter Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...
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Life and work

Illidge was born in
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on 26 September 1799, belonging to a family resident near
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,
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. Illidge's father moved to
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, and, dying young, left a young family ill-provided for. Illidge was educated in Manchester, and taught drawing. He was subsequently the pupil in succession of
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and William Bradley. He initially tried landscape painting, but married early, and, as a result, took up portrait-painting as a more profitable endeavour. Illidge was successful as a portrait-painter in the great manufacturing towns of
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, painting many of the civic or financial celebrities of the locality. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Liverpool Academy from 1827. In 1842 he came to
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, and was from that time was a constant exhibitor at the
Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
. In 1844, on the death of
Henry Perronet Briggs Henry Perronet Briggs RA (1793 – 18 January 1844) was an English painter of portraits and historical scenes. Life Briggs was born at Walworth, County Durham, the son of a post office official. His cousin was Amelia Opie (née Alderson), ...
, R.A., Illidge purchased the lease of the deceased artist's house in
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,
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, where he commenced practice as a popular and fashionable portrait-painter. Illidge died unexpectedly of fever on 13 May 1851.


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Portrait of John Shore
(engraving after Illidge - National Portrait Gallery) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Illidge, Thomas Henry 1799 births 1851 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters People from Birmingham, West Midlands 19th-century English male artists