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James Northcote - Portrait of Charlotte Leycester

Portrait of Charlotte Leycester (1803)

James Northcote (English, 1746-1831)
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James Northcote

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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Capt. Englefield with Eleven of his Crew Saving Themselves in the Pinnace, from the Wreck of the Centaur, of 74 Guns, Lost Sept. 1782 (1796)

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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)

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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)

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Good Advice from an Old Servant to the Young Ones

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

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Tigress

Tigress (1799)

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Adonis

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Captain Peter Hawker of the 14th Light Dragoons

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

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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)

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Lioness

Lioness (1799)

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Lion and Snake (1799)

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Noel Joseph Desenfans

Noel Joseph Desenfans

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Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare

Master Betty as Hamlet, before a bust of Shakespeare

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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)

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Tiger and Crocodile

Tiger and Crocodile (1799)

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