See also:SIR See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN See also:ARCHER See also:SHEE (1770-1850)
, See also:English portrait-painter and See also:president of the Royal See also:Academy, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 23rd of Decembei 1770
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He was sprung from an old Irish See also:family, and his See also:father, a See also:merchant, regarded the profession of a painter as no See also:fit occupation for a descendant of the Shees
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See also:Young See also:Shee became, nevertheless, a student of See also:art in the Dublin Society, and came See also:early to See also:London, where he was, in1788, introduced by See also:Burke to See also:Reynolds, by whose See also:advice he studied in the See also:schools of the Royal Academy
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In' 1789 he exhibited his first two pictures, the See also:Head of an Old See also:Man and Portrait of a See also:Gentleman
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During the next ten years he steadily increased in practice
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He was chosen an See also:associate of the Royal Academy in 1798, shortly after See also:Flaxman, and in 'Soo he was made a Royal Academician
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In the former See also:year he had married, removed to See also:Romney's See also:house in See also:Cavendish Square, and set up as his successor
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Shee continued to paint with See also:great readiness of See also:hand and fertility of invention, although his portraits were eclipsed by more than one of his contemporaries, and especially by See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, See also:Hoppner, See also:Phillips, See also:Jackson and See also:Raeburn
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The earlier portraits of the artist are carefully finished, easy in See also:action, with See also:good See also:drawing and excellent discrimination of See also:character
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They show an undue tendency to redness in the flesh See also:painting—a defect which is still more apparent in his later See also:works, in which the handling is less " square," crisp and forcible
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In addition to his portraits he executed various subjects and See also:historical works, such as Lavinia, See also:Belisarius, his diploma picture Prospero and See also:Miranda, and the Daughter of See also:Jephthah
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In 1805 he published a-poem consisting of Rhymes on Art, and it was succeeded by a second See also:part in 1809
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See also:Byron spoke well of it in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, and invoked a See also:place for " Shee and See also:genius " in the See also:temple of fame
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Shee published another small See also:volume of verses in 1814, entitled The See also:Commemoration of See also:Sir See also:Joshua Reynolds, and other Poems, but this effort did not greatly increase his fame
..
He now produced a tragedy called Alasco, of which the See also:scene was laid in See also:Poland
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The See also:play was accepted at Covent See also:Garden, but See also:Colman, the licenser, refused it his See also:sanction, on the plea of its containing certain treasonable allusions, and Shee, in great wrath, resolved to make his See also:appeal to the public
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This violent See also:threat he carried out in 1824, but Alasco is still on the See also:list of unacted dramas
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On the See also:death of Lawrence in 1830, Shee was chosen president of the Royal Academy, and shortly afterwards he received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood
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In the dispute regarding the use of rooms to be provided by See also:government, and in his examination before the See also:parliamentary See also:committee of 1836, he ably defended the rights of the Academy
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He continued to paint till 1845, and died on the 13th of See also:August 1850
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