This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). With such royal patronage, he developed a large and fashionable clientele. GENERAL SIR JOHN MOORE OIL PAINTING for sale at auction by NY Elizabeth 253 on 2nd April Year: 18th century Size: 37' x 32' Medium: Oil Description: Oil on canvas, large 18th century English portrait of an officer identified as Lt. The results obviously pleased the monarch as, in 1790, he was appointed Crayon (pastel) Painter to King George III, Queen Charlotte, the Prince of Wales (both of whom Russell also painted) and the Duke of York. In 1789, he was commissioned to portray the royal physician Francis Willis. In 1788, after a long wait, Russell was elected a royal academician, in the same year painting a portrait of the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks. The following year, 1773, he painted John Wesley (engraved by Bland). Also in that year he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy. This was a symbolic picture, and was lost on its voyage out but it was engraved, and he later also painted her in oils. In 1771, he exhibited a portrait in oils of Charles Wesley at the Royal Academy and, in 1772, painted Selina, Countess of Huntingdon in pastel. In 1770, Russell painted Methodist minister, George Whitefield (engraved by James Watson) and the future philanthropist, William Wilberforce, then only eleven years old. He exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1768 and showed 330 works at the Academy between 1769 until and his death. In 1772, he wrote Elements of Painting with Crayons, by which time he had won premiums for his drawings from the Society of Arts in 17, and entered the Royal Academy school of art in 1770, winning its gold medal for figure drawing the same year. Russell's work caused him to travel extensively around Britain. 7 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, where he had moved in 1770. On 5 February 1770, he married Hannah Faden, daughter of a Charing Cross print and map seller, whom he had converted. He was introduced to Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, who unsuccessfully attempted to persuade him to give up painting and attend her Methodist ministers' training college at Trevecca in Wales. William Dodd, whose portrait he painted in 1768. He made the acquaintance of the notorious Dr. Russell set up his own studio, in London, in 1767. At the age of 19 he converted to Methodism, which was the cause of tension with his family and with his teacher he made no secret of his strong evangelical leanings and would attempt to preach and convert at every opportunity. He trained under Francis Cotes RA (of Cavendish Square, London), one of the pioneers of English pastel painting, and, like Cotes, was an admirer of the pastel drawings of Rosalba Carriera whose methods influenced his technique of "sweetening". Russell was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and soon showed a strong inclination for art. Russell was born in Guildford, Surrey, the son of John Russell Snr., book and print seller and five times mayor of the town his father was something of an artist, and drew and published two views of Guildford. John Russell RA (29 March 1745 – 20 April 1806) was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.
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