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Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.
Sir James Thornhill (born July 25, 1675, Melcombe Regis, Dorset, Eng.—died May 13, 1734, Thornhill, Dorset) was an English painter, the first to excel in historical painting, whose style was in the Italian Baroque tradition.
Sir James Thornhill was the great English exponent of baroque decorative painting, at a time when foreign artists received almost all commissions for such work. Thornhill lived in London from an early age, and was apprenticed to the decorative painter Joseph Highmore and also made a careful study of foreign decorative painters such as Antonio ...
Jul 25, 2024 · James Thornhill is the artist behind the beautiful mural paintings that can be admired in the Painted Hall. He was still relatively unknown when, 32 years old, he won the commission at what was then the Royal Hospital for Seamen – or Greenwich Hospital – in 1707.
Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.
Sir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the "Painted...
James Thornhill was born at Melcombe Regis in 1675. Despite coming from a humble background he was the only English decorator in the Grand Baroque style – competing with foreign painters such as Verrio, Laguerre, Sebastiano Ricci, Pellegrini and Amiconi.
Artist associated with 23 portraits. The leading British decorative painter in an age of foreign competition. His most famous murals are in the Painted Hall at Greenwich and in the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
James Thornhill Flora Design for Closet Ceiling (left) and Statue of Apollo Design for Blank Niche (right), for Bateman House, London, c. 1718 Bacchus and Ariadne, n.d.
May 31, 2020 · This is after all the finest piece of baroque mural painting in this country, painted 1707-26 by the Dorset-born Sir James Thornhill during the great efflorescence of later 17th and early 18th-century mural painting, which followed the earlier examples by Rubens (Banqueting House) and Gentileschi (Queen’s House), but essentially ...
