Foster, J. J. (Joshua James), 1847-1923
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Born in Dorchester, 1847; trained with Messrs Agnew, Fine Art Publishers, c.1866-c.1875; purchased the London Art Business of Messrs Dickinson, New Bond Street, c.1875; Honorary Secretary of the Folk-lore Society, 1885-1892; became interested in the art of miniature painting and visited a large number of collections in Britain and abroad; Member of the British Committee International Exhibition of Miniatures, 1912; produced a large number of publications relating to the History of Art, and miniature paintings in particular; published Wessex Worthies , biographies of notable Wessex personages, 1920; continued his research for a dictionary of miniature painters, published posthumously by his daughter; died 1923. Publications: Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Miniatures and Enamels [Compiled by J J Foster]([London,] 1880); British Miniature Painters and their works (Sampson, Low & Co, London, 1898); The Stuarts, 2 vols (Dickinsons, London; E P Dutton & Co, New York, 1902); Miniature Painters, British and Foreign, with some account of those who practised in America in the eighteenth century, 2 vols (Dickinsons, London; E P Dutton & Co, New York, 1903); The Life of George Morland, with remarks on his works with an introduction and notes by J J Foster (Dickinsons, London, 1904) [Reprint of: The Life of George Morland by Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe (J Walker, London, 1807)]; Concerning the True Portraiture of Mary, Queen of Scots (Dickinsons, London, 1904); French Art from Watteau to Prud'hon Edited by J J Foster (Dickinsons, London, 1905-1907); Chats on Old Miniatures (T Fisher Unwin, London, 1908); Samuel Cooper and the English miniature painters of the XVII Century, with supplement: A List, alphabetically arranged, of works of English miniature painters of the XVII century, with a description of the same, names of the owners and remarks, 2 vols (Dickinsons, London, 1914-1916); Wessex Worthies - Dorset (Dickinsons, London, 1920); A Dictionary of Painters of Miniatures, 1525-1850 edited by Ethel M Foster (P Allan & Co, London, 1926).
From the guide to the FOSTER, Joshua James (1847-1923), 1880-1935, (Courtauld Institute of Art)
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creatorOf | FOSTER, Joshua James (1847-1923), 1880-1935 | Courtauld Institute of Art | |
creatorOf | Foster, Joshua James. Dictionary of painters of miniatures; with some account of exhibitions, collections, sales, etc. | Greater Victoria Public Library |
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associatedWith | Acheson, Archibald Brabazon Sparrow, 1841-1922, 4th Earl of Gosford |
associatedWith | Crosse Richard 1742-1810 |
associatedWith | Hussey, Giles, 1710-1788 |
associatedWith | Lever William Hesketh 1851-1925 1st Viscount Leverhulme, industrialist |
associatedWith | Lyttelton Charles George 1842-1922 8th Viscount Cobham |
associatedWith | Northcote Henry Stafford 1846-1911 1st Baron Northcote, Governor General of Australia |
associatedWith | Scott John Charles Montagu-Douglas- 1864-1935 7th Duke of Buccleugh |
associatedWith | Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander, 1858-1948 |
associatedWith | Stanhope, Philip James, 1847-1923, 1st Baron Weardale |
associatedWith | Victoria and Albert Museum |
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Birth 1847
Death 1923
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