John Alefounder
John Alefounder (died 1795) was a portrait and miniature painter, working in London and later in India.
Life
Alefounder was a student at the Royal Academy Schools.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1777 and 1793. The first piece he showed was a Design for a Lunatic Asylum, but after that he showed mostly portraits.[1] He won a silver medal in 1782.
In 1784 he exhibited some theatrical portraits and portrait groups. Francesco Bartolozzi made an engraving after his portrait of "Peter the Wild Boy", and in the same year Hodges engraved his portrait of the actor John Edwin .
He subsequently went to India, and realised some fortune by his paintings there. He died at Calcutta in 1795, from the effects of the climate.
References
- ^ Graves, Algernon (1905). The Royal Academy: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors from its Foundations in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 1. London: Henry Graves. p. 19.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "ALEFOUNDER, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Alefounder, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
External links
- John Alefounder 1757-1794, artist (Alefounder ancestors)
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