John Robinson (painter)
John Robinson (1715–1745) was an English portrait painter and draftsman. He was born in Bath in 1715 and studied with John Vanderbank, gaining some success as a portrait painter. After marrying a wealthy wife and, on the death of Charles Jervas, buying Jervas’s house in Cleveland Court, he enjoyed a fashionable practice. But he could not keep it up. He often dressed his sitters in the style of Van Dyck. He died in 1745, before turning 30. A portrait of Lady Charlotte Finch by Robinson was engraved in mezzotint by John Faber the Younger, and the print’s title was later changed to The Amorous Beauty.
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