John Parker (painter)

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John Parker, 1763
self-portrait
John Parker, 1761
painter: Marco Benefial

John Parker , also Ioannes Parcher (* 1710 in London , † 1765 in Paddington (London) ) was a British history and portrait painter .

Life

Parker went to Rome in 1745 for a study visit to Italy of several years and was there in 1748 a student with Marco Benefial in Rome. The Italian capital had meanwhile developed into an international center for art education. In Rome he also painted an altarpiece for the Basilica of Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio in Monte Celio in 1749 .

From 1748 Parker headed the Academy of History Painter , founded in the same year by the art-loving Irish James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont , in Rome , and from 1752 his Academy of English Professors of the Liberal Arts . It was here that paintings from ancient Rome were copied for the English art trade, and Parker worked as an agent for his financier Charlemont.

On December 20, 1751, he wrote a letter to his father in London, in which he describes his observations about a 25-day volcanic eruption on Vesuvius .

He later went to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and then from 1756 at the Accademia di San Luca , where he was painted by Marco Benefial in 1761 . His students in Italy around 1760 also included the future German court painter Franz Ignaz Oefele .

In 1762 Parker returned to England and in 1763 participated in an exhibition of the Free Society of Artists , of which he was a member, with a self-portrait and the work The Assassination of Rizzio ( The Assassination of Rizzio ) and an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts .

Works (selection)

  • North East View of Bath
  • South West View of Bath
  • The Assassination of Rizzio in the presence of Mary Queen of Scots , 1763
  • Self-Portrait , 1763, oil on canvas

literature

  • Anthony M. Clark: Pompeo Batoni . Phaidon Press, Oxford 1985, ISBN 0-7148-2341-4 , p. 165.
  • John Parker . In: John Ingamells: A dictionary of British and Irish travelers in Italy 1701-1800 . Yale University Press, New Haven 1997, ISBN 0-300-07165-5 , p. 738.
  • Samuel Redgrave: Dictionary of Artists of the English School . George Bell & Sons, London 1878, p. 320 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : John Parker  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna Maria Pedrocchi: San Gregorio al Celio (== Itineraries through the museums, galleries, excavations and monuments of Italy, Volume 32). Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1999
  2. ↑ Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Roman Department . Volumes 73–74, 1967, p. 55 ( limited preview in Google book search.)
  3. ↑ Part of a Letter from Mr. John Parker, an English Painter at Rome, to His Father at London, concerning the Late Eruption of Mount Vesuvius ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ John Parker, Pittore , Accademia nazionale de San Luca, accessed November 5, 2018 (Italian)
  5. ↑ In old literature about Franz Ignaz Oefele this English artist is incorrectly called Johann Barca .
  6. ^ Samuel Redgrave: Dictionary of Artists of the English School , p. 320
  7. ^ Algernon Graves: The Society of artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791; the Free Society of Artists, 1761-1783 . George Bell & Sons, London 1907, p. 188 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Robinson's History of Scotland , Volume 1, p. 307
personal data
SURNAME Parker, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parcher, Ioannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 1765
Place of death Paddington (London)