Thomas Beach
Thomas Beach (* 1738 in Milton Abbas near Dorchester , Dorsetshire , † December 17, 1806 in Dorchester) was an English portrait painter .
Life
Beach went to London at the age of 22 to study with Sir Joshua Reynolds from 1760 to 1762 . Around 1771 he had settled in Bath as a portrait painter, but soon had exhibitions in London. In 1775 he was a fellow in the Society of Artists and had made a name for himself as a portraitist of the "better society". From 1785 to 1797 he exhibited his pictures at the Royal Academy of Arts .
Works
He painted, among others, the actress Sarah Siddons and her brother John Philip Kemble in his most important production as " Macbeth ". His painting of horse dealer Richard Tattersall was shown at the South Kensington Exhibition in 1867 and his portrait of William Woodfall , the first Parliament reporter, is now in the National Portrait Gallery (London) .
literature
- Julius Meyer, Wilhelm Schmidt, Georg Kaspar Nagler , Hermann Lücke, Hugo von Tschudi: General artist lexicon. With the participation of the most renowned specialists at home and abroad. Verlag W. Engelmann, 1885.
- Leslie Stephen: Beach, Thomas (1738-1806) . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 3: Baker - Beadon. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1885, pp. 458 - 459 (English).
- Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. Volume 1: A-F. Literary establishment Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / Main 1895, p. 85 ( daten.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- Maurice W. Brockwell : Beach, Thomas (FSA) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 109 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Thomas Beach . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 32.
- Elise Sophia Beach: Thomas Beach, a Dorset Portrait Painter. Favorite Pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. J. Bale Sons & Danielsson, 1934.
Web links
- ArtCyclopedia - Links to Beach Paintings in UK Museums
- Beach paintings in the National Portrait Gallery
Individual evidence
- ^ Henry Benjamin Wheatley: Historical Portraits. Some Notes on the Painted Portraits of Celebrated Characters of England, Scotland and Ireland. Read Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4097-1526-9 , p. 76 ( books.google.de digitalisat).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beach, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milton Abbas , Dorchester , Dorsetshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1806 |
| Place of death | Dorchester (Dorset) |