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James Northcote
James Northcote

James Northcote

English, 1746-1831
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James Northcote RA was a British painter.
Northcote was born in Plymouth, and was apprenticed to his father, Samuel Northcote, a watchmaker. In his spare time, he drew and painted. In 1769 he left his father's work and set up as a portrait painter. Four years later he went to London and was admitted as a pupil into the studio and house of Sir Joshua Reynolds. At the same time he attended the Royal Academy schools.

In 1775 he left Reynolds' studio, and about two years later, having made some money by portrait painting back in Devon, he went to study in Italy. On his return to England, three years later, he revisited his native county, then settled in London, where John Opie and Henry Fuseli were his rivals. He was elected associate of the Academy in 1786, and full academician in the following spring. The Young Princes Murdered in the Tower, his first important work on a historical subject, dates from 1786, and it was followed by the Burial of the Princes in the Tower. Both paintings, along with seven others, were intended for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. His enormous Death of Wat Tyler was exhibited in 1787; commissioned by a London alderman, it hung in the Guildhall until its destruction during the Second World War.

Shortly afterwards Northcote began a set of ten subjects, entitled "The Modest Girl and the Wanton", which were completed and engraved in 1796. Among the productions of Northcote's later years are the Entombment and the Agony in the Garden, besides many portraits, and several animal subjects, such as Leopards, Dog and Heron, and Lion; these were more successful than the artist's attempts at more elevated subjects, as was indicated by Fuseli's caustic remark on examining the Angel opposing Balaam —"Northcote, you are an angel at an ass, but an ass at an angel." Northcote's works number about 2000, and he made a fortune of £40,000.

He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1787. He became a corresponding member, living abroad, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1809. He sponsored the admission in 1829 of Thomas Sewell Robins to the Royal Academy Schools.

Northcote also sought fame as an author, and his first essays were contributions to the Artist, edited by Prince Hoare. In 1813 he embodied his recollections of his old master in a Life of Reynolds. His Fables—the first series published in 1828, the second posthumously in 1833—were illustrated with woodcuts by Harvey from Northcote's own designs. In the production of his Life of Titian, his last work, which appeared in 1830, he was assisted by William Hazlitt, who previously, in 1826, had given to the public in the New Monthly Magazine his recollections of Northcote's pungent and cynical "conversations", causing some problems for the painter and his friends.

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Noel Joseph Desenfans

Noel Joseph Desenfans

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Figurative
Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III , Romeo and Paris dead, Juliet and Friar Laurence

Romeo and Juliet, act V, scene III , Romeo and Paris dead, Juliet and Friar Laurence (1790)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Mythology
Gadshill

Gadshill (1796)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Mythology
Captain Peter Hawker of the 14th Light Dragoons

Captain Peter Hawker of the 14th Light Dragoons (1812)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Portrait of Mrs. Smith Barwell, née Unwin

Portrait of Mrs. Smith Barwell, née Unwin (circa 1785)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Mrs. Allan Maconochie

Mrs. Allan Maconochie (1789)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Portrait of Charlotte Leycester

Portrait of Charlotte Leycester (1803)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Sir William Elford, Bart.

Sir William Elford, Bart.

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare

Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Self-portrait

Self-portrait (1746 - 1831)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Adonis

Adonis

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Mythology
Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bt., in the Uniform of the Yorkshire (North Riding) Militia

Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bt., in the Uniform of the Yorkshire (North Riding) Militia

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois

Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Figurative
King Richard III; Act III, Scene I (The Meeting of Edward V and His Brother, Richard, Duke of York)

King Richard III; Act III, Scene I (The Meeting of Edward V and His Brother, Richard, Duke of York) (1789)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Wanton turn’d out of Doors for Misconduct

The Wanton turn’d out of Doors for Misconduct (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Wanton Revelling with her Companions

The Wanton Revelling with her Companions (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Wanton in her Bed Chamber

The Wanton in her Bed Chamber (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Wanton Dying in Poverty and Disease Visited by the Modest Girl

The Wanton Dying in Poverty and Disease Visited by the Modest Girl (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Spell, or Hobnelia

The Spell, or Hobnelia (1783)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Modest Girl rejects the Illicit Addresses of her Master

The Modest Girl rejects the Illicit Addresses of her Master (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Modest Girl in her Bed Chamber

The Modest Girl in her Bed Chamber (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Modest Girl and the Wanton; Fellow Servants in a Gentleman’s House

The Modest Girl and the Wanton; Fellow Servants in a Gentleman’s House (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Good Girl Receives the Honourable Addresses of her Master

The Good Girl Receives the Honourable Addresses of her Master (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
The Good Girl Married to her Master; The Wanton laid in her Grave

The Good Girl Married to her Master; The Wanton laid in her Grave (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
Richard III; Act IV, Scene III, Tower of London

Richard III; Act IV, Scene III, Tower of London (1795)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
King Richard the Third; Act IV, Scene III (The Murder of the Princes in the Tower)

King Richard the Third; Act IV, Scene III (The Murder of the Princes in the Tower) (1790)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
King Richard the Second, Act V, Scene II (The Entrance of King Richard & Bolingbroke into London)

King Richard the Second, Act V, Scene II (The Entrance of King Richard & Bolingbroke into London) (1801)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
King Henry VI, Part I; Act II, Scene V, A Room in the Tower (The Death of Mortimer)

King Henry VI, Part I; Act II, Scene V, A Room in the Tower (The Death of Mortimer) (1792)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
Good Advice from an Old Servant to the Young Ones

Good Advice from an Old Servant to the Young Ones (1797)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
Death of Captain Alexander Hood

Death of Captain Alexander Hood (1798)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
Illustration
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