Thomas Musgrave Joy
Thomas Musgrave Joy | |
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Born | Boughton Monchelsea, England | 9 July 1812
Died | 7 April 1866 Pimlico, England | (aged 53)
Known for | Painting |
Thomas Musgrave Joy (9 July 1812 – 7 April 1866) was a British portraitist.
Life
Joy was born on 9 July 1812 in
Joy married Eliza Rohde Spratt in 1839 and two years later received a Royal Commission that recognised him as an established artist.
Joy was in demand as a portrait painter and he created paintings of General Sir Charles James Napier who had achieved victories in what is now called Pakistan. A large group painting exhibited in 1864 records the most important people at Tattersalls before a race.[4] Joy's habits of overwork are said to have led to a bout of bronchitis that resulted in his death in 1866.[2] In the same year his eighteen-year-old eldest daughter, Mary Eliza, exhibited her first painting at the Royal Academy.[7]
Joy died in Pimlico at 32 St Georges Square.[4]
Legacy
Joy had exhibited regularly throughout his career at the
References
- ^ a b 11 artworks by or after Thomas Musgrave Joy at the Art UK site
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15148. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22140. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c Thomas Musgrave Joy, Stanford University, retrieved October 2013
- ^ 'Fitzroy Street', Survey of London: volume 21: The parish of St Pancras part 3: Tottenham Court Road & neighbourhood (1949), pp. 44–46. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65167 Date accessed: 9 October 2013.
- ^ Lightbox ROC pets 18, Bridgeman Art, retrieved October 2013
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33764. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)