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John Hamilton Mortimer

British artist

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contribution to Romantic painting

  • St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
    In Western painting: Britain

    Though never in Rome, John Hamilton Mortimer had much in common with this group, for all were participants in a move to found a national school of narrative painting. Fuseli’s affiliations with the German Romantic Sturm und Drang writers predisposed him, like Flaxman, toward the “primitive” heroic stories of…

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