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James Latham (painter)

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Several of James Latham's portraits are in the National Gallery of Ireland collection in Dublin. Notable works include the portrait of MP Charles Tottenham (1694–1758) of New Ross, Co. Wexford, known as "Tottenham in his Boots" (Cat. No. 411), and a portrait of Bishop
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by 1725and may have visited England in the 1740s, as his work from this period shows the influence of Joseph Highmore,
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possibly related to the Latham family of Meldrum and Ballysheehan. After beginning his art practice, Latham studied in
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An Authentic History of the Professors of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture who have Practised in Ireland
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memorably dubbed Latham "Ireland's Van Dyck." Latham died in Dublin on 26 January 1747.
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The Rt Hon. Sir Capel Molyneux 1740 James Latham 1696-1747 Purchased 1947
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during the academic year of 1724–25, where he became a Master of the
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The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675–1709
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Thurles
County Tipperary
Kingdom of Ireland
Antwerp
Guild of St Luke
Dublin
Charles Jervas
William Hogarth
Anthony Pasquin
Portrait of a girl, seated, wearing a blue dress and holding a rose.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05801
Robert Clayton
Knight of Glin
"Latham, James" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1690s births
1747 deaths
Artists from County Tipperary
18th-century Irish painters
Irish male painters
Painters from Antwerp
People from Thurles

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