biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1688–1751)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He began as a house and coach painter, moved to London (1709), studied portrait painting, moved to Italy (c.1717–20), and came back to London (1720–8). Emigrating to Newport, RI with Bishop Berkeley (1729), he painted his most famous work, Dean Berkeley and His Entourage (1729). In 1730 he moved to Boston to spend the next 18 years mainly doing portraits, which were somewhat awkward in style, of upper-class Massachusetts colonists. He designed Faneuil Hall, Boston (1740–2), his sole architectural work. |
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