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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, seated, in a blue dress and a straw hat, holding a rose
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James Latham (c.1696-1747)
Considered to be the most distinguished Irish portrait artist of the first half of the eighteenth century, James Latham was almost certainly born in Thurles, County Tipperary. Speculation exists that he was taught by the great Garret Morphy (c.1655-1715), but so far no written evidence has emerged about his early training as a painter, although we do know (from the art historian Anthony Pasquin, in his Memoirs of the Royal Academicians and an Authentic (showing 500 of 2167 characters). |
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