John Martin
(1789-1854), History, landscape and biblical painterEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 4 portraits
The artist John Martin began his career as an apprentice to a coach-painter and became famous for his large-scale dramatic panoramas usually inspired by historic and biblical themes of disaster and mass destruction. His works include The Fall of Nineveh (1828) and The Last Judgement: The Great Day of his Wrath (1852), which were popularised through affordable mezzotint prints.
by William Brockedon
pencil and chalk, 1826
NPG 2515(13)
by Henry Warren
oil on panel, exhibited 1839
NPG 958
by Charles Edward Wagstaff, after Thomas Charles Wageman
stipple engraving, 1834
NPG D16950
by Charles Martin
etching with aquatint border, February 1854
NPG D38284
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