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See also:DOWNMAN, See also:JOHN (1750–1824) , See also:English portrait painter, was the son of See also:Francis Downman,See also:attorney, of St Neots, by See also:Charlotte Goodsend, eldest daughter of the private secretary to See also:George I.; his grandfather, See also:Hugh Downman (1672–1729), having been the See also:master of the See also:House of See also:Ordnance at See also:Sheerness. He is believed to have been See also:born near See also:Ruabon, educated first at See also:Chester, then at See also:Liverpool, and finally at the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools, and he was for a while in the studio of See also:Benjamin See also:West. His exquisite See also:pencil portrait drawings, slightly tinted in See also:colour, usually from the See also:reverse, are well known, and many of them are of remarkable beauty. Several volumes of sketches for these drawings are still in existence. Downman is believed to have been " pressed " for the See also:navy as a See also:young See also:man, and on his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape settled down for a while in See also:Cambridge, eventually coming to See also:London, and later (1804) going to reside in See also:Kent in the See also:village of West See also:Malling. He afterwards spent some See also:part of his See also:life in the west of See also:England, especially in See also:Exeter, and then travelled all over the See also:country See also:painting his dainty portraits. In 1818 he settled down at Chester, finally removing to See also:Wrexham, where his only daughter married and where he died and was buried. He was an See also:associate of the Royal Academy. The Downman See also:family is usually known as a See also:Devonshire one, but the exact connexion between the artist
2 Cal. of St Pap.; Dom. (1661–1662) p. 408; Notes and Queries, ix. See also:ser. vii. 92.
3 See also:Diary, See also:March 12, 17, 1662. 5 Sibley, i. 46.
s lb. May 27, 1667.
and the Devonshire See also:branch has not been traced. Many ofd flowed through the See also:gap. In this depression lies See also:Farnham, the his portraits have attached to them remarks of considerable
importance respecting the persons represented.
See John Downman, his Life and See also:Works, by G. C. See also:Williamson (London, 1907). (G. C. W.
End of Article: DOWNMAN, JOHN (1750–1824)
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