John Mogford

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John Mogford (1821–1885) was an English landscape painter.[1]

Life

Mogford's background was in Devon. He studied at the Somerset House Government School of Design, and then exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Suffolk Street Gallery.[1] He lived in Hampstead, and became a member of the Institute of Painters in Watercolours, where he was known for his Cornish landscapes.[2]

Mogford taught at the Maddox Street art school, where his pupils included Emily Mary Osborn.[3] He married a daughter of Francis Danby.[1]

Bamborough Castle, 1875 plate from Picturesque Europe, after John Mogford

Notes

  1. ^ a b c H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 237. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
  2. ^ Records of the manor, parish, and borough of Hampstead, in the county of London, to December 31st, 1889 (1890), p. 397
  3. ^ Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-7188-3084-7.

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