John Donaldson (painter)
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Sarah Garrow, née Dore by John Donaldson, painted miniature on ivory
John Donaldson was born at Edinburgh in 1737, and distinguished himself as a miniature painter, both in enamel and water-colours. In the year 1764, and again in 1768, he obtained the premium given by the Society of Arts for the best picture in enamel. He occasionally amused himself with the point, and etched several plates of beggars, after Rembrandt, which possess considerable merit. He died in London in 1801.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Donaldson, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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- 18th-century Scottish painters
- Scottish male painters
- 1737 births
- 1801 deaths
- Artists from Edinburgh
- Portrait miniaturists
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