James Northcote (1746-1831), Painter; pupil and biographer of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sitter associated with 23 portraits
Artist associated with 103 portraits
The history and portrait painter James Northcote was largely self-taught before he joined Sir Joshua Reynolds's studio as a pupil and assistant between 1771 and 1776. He came to consider himself an authority on his master and in 1813, after Reynolds' death, he published his posthumous Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Northcote also advised his patron Sir John Fleming Leicester on the formation of his gallery of contemporary British art and painted grandiose scenes from Shakespeare for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, feigned incomplete oval, 1778
NPG 5469
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, circa 1785
NPG 4301
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1803
On display in Room 18 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 62
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1804
NPG 140
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1812-1813, dated 1813
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 978
by James Northcote
oil on canvas, 1819
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6088
by James Northcote
oil on linen, 1822
On display at Brantwood, Coniston
NPG 5973
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after James Northcote
oil on canvas, circa 1826
On display in Room 19 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L251
by Francis Haward, published by Walter Shropshire, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 20 March 1776
NPG D18921
'The loss of the Halsewell East Indiaman'
by James Gillray, published by Robert Wilkinson, after James Northcote
line engraving, etching and stipple, published 4 June 1787
NPG D13063
The Revolution, 1688 (King William III; Queen Mary II)
by James Parker, published by John Harris, after James Northcote
line engraving, published 1790
NPG D32811
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
by Franz Gabriel Fiesinger, after James Northcote
stipple and line engraving, published 8 October 1793
NPG D20406
Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
by Francesco Bartolozzi, after James Northcote
stipple engraving, after 1794
NPG D34805
John Pollexfen Bastard; Edmund Bastard
by Samuel William Reynolds, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 1795
NPG D21481
by Samuel William Reynolds, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 1796
NPG D763
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