- Also known as
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Joseph Farington
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primary name: Farington, Joseph
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1747-1821
- Biography
- Landscape painter and topographical draughtsman, possibly colorblind; b. Manchester 1747; d. there 1821; in London 1763 as pupil of Richard Wilson, whom he assisted until 1767/8; entered RA schools 1769; exhibited SA 1756-73 and RA 1778-1813; settled in London 1781; became ARAR 1783 and RA 1785; his 'Diary 1793-1821' is a key source of information about the London art world (published in full withl index, see bibliography above). The original manuscript is in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, but there is a typescript of it in the P&D library (in 28 vols including index, and two boxes).
- Bibliography
- The diary of Joseph Farington, Yale 1978-98 (16 vols + index) (there was an abridged version in 8 vols by James R Grieg published in 1922-28)
K. Sloan, 'Two albums of drawings by J B Gilpin (1701-76)', The Magazine for the International Collector of Watercolour, Drawings and Prints, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 7-10
S. Hebron, 'In the Line of Beauty: Early Views of the Lake District by Amateur Artists', exh. Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2008, pp. 49-68
John R Murray, 'A Tour of the English Lakes with Thomas Gray and Joseph Farington RA' (Frances Lincoln Ltd, London, 2011), concerning watercolours (now at Yale) and prints in William Byrne's 1789 publication 'Views of the Lakes etc. in Cumberland and Westmorland: engraved from drawings made by Joseph Farington RA, with text by William Cookson).
A manuscript, (register number 1937,0313.277), is inserted in the front of an album of drawings of the Clyde (1936,0409.1-55), contained within a loose paper cover and entitled "The Clyde". The outer wrapper contains notes, seemingly in Farington's hand, on sheets of varying sizes. These notes relate to the geography of the Clyde and its surrounding area, historical information relating to the area, and Farington's accounts and anecdotes of his travels.
H J Crawford of Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead in 1937 sent to Edward Croft Murray in P&D his research notes and full typed transcriptions of Joseph Fariington's Journals of his tours around England, Scotland and Valenciennes ( typescripts of 14 journals, covering 1788-1812). Kept in P&D Library in two box files at Ce.5 (Box 1, 2), with an inventory of the contents in the front of each box.
