John Alefounder
John Alefounder (1757 – 1795) was a painter of portraits and miniatures, working in London and later in India.
Life[]
Alefounder was born in Colchester, Essex in 1757 and became a student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1776.[1]
He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1777 and 1793. The first piece he showed was a Design for a Lunatic Asylum, but after that he showed mostly portraits.[2] He won a silver medal in 1782.
In 1784 he exhibited some theatrical portraits and portrait groups. Francesco Bartolozzi made an engraving after his portrait of "Peter the Wild Boy"[3] and in the same year C.H. Hodges engraved his portrait of the actor John Edwin.[3][4]
He subsequently went to India and died at Calcutta on 25 December 1794.[1][3] According to William Baillie, in a letter written the following year, he committed suicide, in despair at his financial situation.[5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "John Alefounder". Royal Academy Collections. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ Graves, Algernon (1905). The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904. 1. London: Henry Graves. p. 19.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Bryan,1886–9
- ^ "H Beard Print Collection". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ Tillotson, Giles Henry Rupert (2000). The Artificial Empire: The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges. Routledge. p. 121. ISBN 9780700712823.
Sources[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Alefounder, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Alefounder, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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- John Alefounder 1757-1794, artist (Alefounder ancestors)
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- 18th-century English painters
- English male painters
- Portrait miniaturists
- 18th-century suicides
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