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ANTIQUE #SA584280
john russell ra 17451806portrait of a young boy - CATEGORY: ANTIQUE ART - DATED 18TH CENTURY
 

John Russell, Ra, 1745-1806 portrait Of A Young Boy

£3,000    $3,743    €3,602
John Russell, RA, 1745-1806
 
Portrait of a Young Boy
 
Signed/Inscribed:
 
on a label on the reverse
 
oil on canvas
 
20 x 15in. (51 x 38 cm.)
 
John Russell, (1745–1806), portrait painter and astronomer, was born on 29 March 1745 at 32 High Street, Guildford, the second child of John Russell (1711–1804), book- and printseller, five times mayor of Guildford, and an artist himself (his Prospects of Guildford were engraved and published in 1759 and 1782), and his wife, Ann Parvish (1719–1775).
 
John Russell was baptized in the ruins of Holy Trinity Church, Guildford, and educated at the local grammar school before winning premiums at the Society of Arts in 1759 and 1760. He was then apprenticed to the painter Francis Cotes, who became a friend and mentor, and painted a miniature of his promising pupil. This happy relationship was frequently endangered by Russell''s religious ‘conversion’, which began with an entry on the title-page of his diary, decorated with a stony desert and a view of Golgotha in the background: ‘John Russell converted September 30, 1764, aetat. 19, at about half an hour after seven in the evening’ (Russell). This prompted an evangelical ardour. For example, while painting Lord Montagu''s portrait at Cowdray House in 1767, Russell not only annoyed the household by his intrusive fanaticism but excited such ill feeling among the many Anglicans and Roman Catholics of the neighbourhood that on his return journey he was refused accommodation at all the inns in Midhurst. Even his fellow citizens of Guildford rioted in protest.
 
In 1768 Russell settled in London, first in Portland Street, where he painted, in 1769, an oil portrait of the notorious forger Dr William Dodd (NPG). Here he met another celebrated Methodist, Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon, who tried unsuccessfully to make him give up painting and to lure him to her religious community. On 5 February 1770 he married one of his ‘converts’—Hannah Faden (1745–1816), daughter o...
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