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- John Claude Nattes
- Also known as
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John Claude Nattes
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primary name: Nattes, John Claude
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other name: Nattes, Claude
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
- Life dates
- c. 1765-1839
- Address
- 41 Charles Street, Westminster in 1781
Parliament Street, London
and 49 South Molton Street, London (from c. 1787 - see trade cards D,2.4260, 4261 and 4264)
14 Queens Buildings, Knightsbridge 1795
92 New Bond St 1797
23 Welbeck Street 1808
- Biography
- Topographical draughtsman and drawing master. Nattes' date and place of birth are not known. He may have been Irish or possibly French; he became a pupil of the Irish artist H P Deane and may have visited Italy with him. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1780. As well as a painter, he was a watercolourist, drawing master and print dealer and a founding member of the Old Watercolour Society, from which he was expelled in 1807 for submitting other artists' works under his name. From 1802 he made frequent visits and several sojourns to France. For a long time he was assumed to have died around 1822 but it is now known he died in London 7 Sept. 1839. Trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,56.10) and Banks Collection (Banks,56.17) advertise "Monsieur Nattes No.41 Charles Street, Westminster. Pupil of Mr. Dean, respectfully acquaints the Nobility & Gentry that he teaches Drawing in the manner of that celebrated Master, on moderate terms, he also teaches Perspective so very essential in taking Local Views. Monsieur Nattes likewise continues to decorate Drawings & Prints in the most elegant manner & has a very superior method of fixing or binding Drawings in Chalks or Lead to prevent them from being Effaced." Heal's annotations on mount: " 'Topographical draughtsman and water-colour painter - pupil of H.P.Dean (see above)...wed at 49 South Molton Street...' In the Banks Collection are several cards: - Mr. Nattes, 49 South Molton St. dated 1789. Mr. Nattes, 14 Queens Buildings, Knightsbridge Green, N.D. [no date]. Mr. Nattes, 91 New Bond Street, N.D." Trade cards in Banks Collection. D,2.3705 is a manuscript trade card in pen and black ink advertising "As a Specimen of Mr. Nattes' Drawing may be seen every day at his appartment [sic] a Collection of views taken by him in different parts of Italy, France, Swisserland [sic] & England. Likewise teaches Perspective, so very Essential in taking Local views." Further trade cards in Banks Collection include Banks 56.16-22.
- Bibliography
- John Aldred, 'John Claude Nattes: An Anglo-French artist in Lancashire in 1807' in The British Art Journal, Vol. IV, no. 2, 2003, pp. 91-2
