The Life Of John Hamilton Mortimer

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John Hamilton Mortimer is an English artist and a british figure. He is a landscape painter, draughtsman and an etcher born on 17 September 1746 Different from most of fellow artists in this field, however, gets much of his subject-matter from Anglo-Saxon history rather than from antiquity. At a very young age of 17 he was studying in Duke of Richmond's Acadamy, an acadamy that lasted only for 15 years. He began to showcase his art pieces frequently in the early 1760s,making himself an active member of the Society Of Artists ,which awarded him prizes for paintings of subjects from British history in 1763 and 1764, eventually leading him to become its president in 1774. John Hamilton Mortimer is known to have been able to draw anything

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