John Zephaniah Bell
John Zephaniah Bell (1794 – 1883) was a Scottish artist.
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Life
He was born in Dundee, where his father William Bell was a tanner, businessman and banker; James Stanislaus Bell was his brother. He studied at Edinburgh University, and then went to London, where he was a pupil of Martin Archer Shee.[1][2][3]
Bell studied under Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris, and was in Rome for over a year from 1825. He was portrait painter to Maria II of Portugal, and assistant to David Wilkie. He married Jane Graham Hay Campbell in 1831.[2][4]
Bell became head of the Manchester School of Design when it was set up in 1838.[2][5] He resigned in 1843 and was succeeded by George Wallis.[6]
Works
In Paris, Bell met David Ogilvy, 9th Earl of Airlie, who became a patron and had him decorate Cortachy Castle.[2] He showed paintings at the Royal Academy and Royal Manchester Institution in the period 1824 to 1865.[7] Frescoes in the Muirhouse mansion in Edinburgh impressed Wilkie.[8] Bell won a prize in the Westminster Hall fresco competition of 1842.[2][5]
Bell was a Sandemanian and painted a portrait of Michael Faraday, of the same church.[9] The attribution to Bell of John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton has been withdrawn.[10]
Notes
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- ↑ Getty Research Library Catalog, Bell, John Zephaniah, 1794-1883.
- ↑ scottish-places.info, John Zephaniah Bell.
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- ↑ thefreelibrary.com, Who was Robert Burnard?.
External links
- WorldCat page
- Paintings by John Zephaniah Bell at the Art UK site