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competing for business; consequently, from 1796 to 1800, his exhibited works were chiefly portraits of gentlemen and ladies, often nameless in the catalogue and of no great importance, historically speaking.
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chapel. He married Elizabeth Fraser of Fairfield, near Inverness. They had two daughters and two sons, the elder of whom, Joseph Scott Phillips, became a major in the Bengal artillery, and died at
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In 1804 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, together with his rival, William Owen. About the same time he moved to 8 George Street,
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was exhibited at the Royal Academy that same year. In 1825 he was elected professor of painting at the Royal Academy, succeeding
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Phillips died at 8 George Street, Hanover Square, London, on 20 April 1845, and was interred in the burial-ground of
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After 1796, he concentrated on portrait-painting. However, the field was very crowded with the likes of
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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for John Nichols's edition of that artist's "Works", 1808–17. He was a fellow of the
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His contributions to the academy exhibition of 1809 included a portrait of Sir
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Phillips wrote many occasional essays on the fine arts, especially for
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A self-portrait, exhibited in 1844, was one of his last works.
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Thomas Phillips (disambiguation)

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portrait
painter

Dudley
Worcestershire
Birmingham
Francis Eginton
Benjamin West
St George's Chapel
Royal Academy
Windsor Castle
John Hoppner
William Owen
Thomas Lawrence
Martin Archer Shee
Hanover Square
Henry Tresham
Prince of Wales
Lord Thurlow
William Blake
National Portrait Gallery, London
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Luigi Schiavonetti
William Bell Scott
Joseph Banks
Lord Byron
Robert Graves

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