John Zephaniah Bell
John Zephaniah Bell (1794–1883) was a Scottish artist.
Life
He was born in
James Stanislaus Bell was his brother. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, 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
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Portrait miniatures of The Count and Countess of Linhares, by John Zephaniah Bell, 1823
In Paris, Bell met
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Faraday, of the same church.[9] The attribution to Bell of John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton has been withdrawn.[10]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
- ISBN 978-1-58736-747-2. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
- ^ a b c d e National Gallery (Great Britain), Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures. British schools (1896), p. 28, archive.org.
- ISBN 978-0-906265-22-2., page 11.
- ISBN 978-0-7188-9153-4. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-49187-7. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ISBN 978-3-11-095440-1. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ Getty Research Library Catalog, Bell, John Zephaniah, 1794-1883.
- ^ scottish-places.info, John Zephaniah Bell.
- ISBN 978-1-4443-1736-7. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
- ^ thefreelibrary.com, Who was Robert Burnard?.
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