Tobias Young (1824)

Tobias Young was a British painter whose reputation flourished in Southampton, known for works like 'Judgment of Solomon'.

ABOUT

John Tobias Young (died 1824) was a British painter. == Life == Young was probably born in Mildenhall near Marlborough. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1816 and 1817, and painted the scenery for Lord Barrymore's private theatre at Wargrave. He practised for some time at Southampton, to which town and its neighbourhood his reputation was chiefly confined. In the Southampton Town Hall there is a Judgment of Solomon by him. He lived at 1 Hanover Buildings, Southampton unti…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Moses and the Burning Bush (recto) and The Infant Moses Put into the River (verso) from Neue künstliche Figuren biblischer Historien, plate 55 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century 1578 · Art Institute of Chicago Tobias and the Angel Raphael 1603 · Art Institute of Chicago Winchester from the South 1803 · Winchester Guildhall Soliman Kahn I, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey 1815 · Art Institute of Chicago Selim Kahn III, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey 1815 · Art Institute of Chicago Othman Kahn I, from Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey 1815 · Art Institute of Chicago

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Joshua ReynoldsGrand Style Thomas GainsboroughRococo William HogarthRococo Joseph Wright of DerbyNeoclassicism

Influenced

John ConstableRomanticism Thomas LawrenceRegency Edwin LandseerVictorian Painting