JAMESON (or JAMESONE), GEORGE (c. 158...
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Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 147
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JAMESON (or JAMESONE), GEORGE (c. 1587–1644)
, Scottish portrait-painter, was born at Aberdeen, where his father was architect and a member of the guild
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After studying painting under Rubens at Antwerp, with Vandyck as a fellow See also: - PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
, he returned in 162o to Aberdeen, where he was married in 1624 and remained at least until 163o, after which he took up his residence in Edinburgh
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He was employed by the magistrates of Edinburgh to copy several portraits of the Scottish kings for presentation to Charles I. on his first visit to Scotland in 1633, and the See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
rewarded him with a diamond ring from his own finger
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This circumstance at once established Jameson's fame, and he soon found constant employment, in painting the portraits of the Scottish nobility and gentry
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He also painted a portrait of Charles, which he declined to sell to the magistrates of Aberdeen for the price they offered
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He died at Edinburgh in 1644
.
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