{"title":"Hoppner, John","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Hoppner RA (1758-1810)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English painter, much influenced by Joshua Reynolds, who achieved fame as a colourist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoppner was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of German parents - his mother was one of the German attendants at the royal palace. George III showed a fatherly interest and patronage of the young boy that gave rise to rumours, quite unfounded, that he may have been his illegitimate son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoppner became a chorister at the royal chapel, but, showing a strong inclination for art, in 1775 he entered the Royal Academy. In 1778, he took a silver medal for drawing from life, and in 1782, the Academy's highest award, the gold medal for historical painting, his subject being King Lear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoppner first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780. His earliest love was for landscape, but necessity obliged him to turn to the more lucrative business of portrait painting. At once successful, he had throughout life the most fashionable and wealthy sitters and was the greatest rival to the growing attraction of Thomas Lawrence. He rarely attempted ideal subjects, though a Sleeping Venus, Belisarius, Jupiter and Io, a Bacchante and Cupid and Psyche are recorded among his works. The Prince of Wales visited him especially often, and many of his finest portraits were hung in the state apartments at St James's Palace, notably those of the prince himself, the Duke and Duchess of York, Lord Rodney and Lord Nelson. His other sitters included Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington, Henry Bartle Frere and Sir George Beaumont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompetent judges have deemed his most successful works to be his portraits of women and children... He was confessedly an imitator of Reynolds. When first painted, his works were much admired for the brilliancy and harmony of their colouring, but the injury due to destructive mediums and lapse of time which many of them suffered caused a great depreciation in his reputation. The appearance, however, of some of his pictures in good condition has shown that his fame as a brilliant colourist was well-founded. His drawing is faulty, but his touch has qualities of breadth and freedom that give to his paintings a faint reflection of the charm of Reynolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1803, he published A Series of Portraits of Ladies, engraved after his paintings by Charles Wilkin, and in 1805 a volume of translations of Eastern tales into English verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe married Phoebe Wright, the daughter of American-born sculptor Patience Wright. 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