Jonathan Richardson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonathan Richardson, self-portrait 1729

Jonathan Richardson the Elder (* 1665 in London , † May 28, 1745 in Bloomsbury ) was a British portrait painter , art theorist and art collector .

Life

Richardson grew up with his stepfather. It was not until he was 20 years old that he studied painting with John Riley and developed a talent in portrait painting that he soon matched Godfrey Kneller and Michael Dahl in perfection. It was Joshua Reynolds that let Richardson fall into oblivion.

One of his students was Thomas Hudson , later the "British establishment painter", who was also portrayed by Richardson and who eventually married one of his daughters.

Not only was Richardson an early art collector, his gradually disintegrated collection of drawings was one of the largest in size in history.

His son was the painter and printer Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694–1771).

Fonts

  • An Essay on the Theory of Painting. London 1715. 2nd edition 1725 ( digitized ).
  • Two discourses. I. An essay on the whole art of criticism, as it relates to painting ... II. An argument on behalf of the science of a connoisseur. Churchill, London 1719 ( Google books ).
  • An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-Reliefs, Drawings, and Pictures in Italy. Knapton, London 1722 ( digitized ).
  • The works of Jonathan Richardson, containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism. III. The science of a connoisseur. London 1773.

literature

  • Irene Haberland: Jonathan Richardson (1666-1745). The foundation of art connoisseurship. Dissertation. University of Bonn 1989. Lit, Hamburg, Münster 1991, ISBN 3-88660-536-1 ( Bonn studies on art history. Volume 2).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. 1843, p. 126 ( Google books ).

Web links

Wikisource: Jonathan Richardson  - Sources and full texts (English)
Commons : Jonathan Richardson  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jill Finsten: A Self-Portrait by Jonathan Richardson , in: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Volume 21/1993, pp 43-54, here p 43
personal data
SURNAME Richardson, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1745
Place of death Bloomsbury