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See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN, See also:JOHN (1789-1854) , See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Haydon See also:Bridge, near See also:Hexham, on the 19th of See also:July 1789. He was apprenticed by his See also:father to a coachbuilder to learn heraldic See also:painting, but owing to a See also:quarrel the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed under See also:Bonifacio Musso, an See also:Italian artist, father of the See also:enamel painter See also:Charles Musso. With his See also:master Martin removed to See also:London in 18o6, where he married at the See also:age of nineteen, and supported himself by giving See also:drawing lessons, and by painting in See also:water See also:colours, and on See also:china and See also:glass. His leisure was occupied in the study of See also:perspective and See also:architecture. His first picture, " Sadak in See also:Search of the See also:Waters of Oblivion," was exhibited in the Royal See also:Academy of 1812, and sold for fifty guineas. It was followed by the "See also:Expulsion" (1813), "See also:Paradise" (1813), "Clytie" (1814), and "See also:Joshua" (1815). In 1821 appeared his " Belshazzar's Feast," which excited much favour-able and hostile comment, and was awarded a See also:prize of £200 at the See also:British Institution, where the Joshua had previously carried off a See also:premium of boo. Then came the "Destruction of See also:Herculaneum" (1822), the " Creation " (1824), the "EveoftheDeluge" (1841), and a See also:series of other Biblical and imaginative subjects. In 1832-1833 Martin received £2000 for drawing and See also:engraving a See also:fine series of designs to See also:Milton, and with See also:Westall he produced a set of See also:Bible illustrations. He was also occupied with schemes for the improvement of London, and published various See also:pamphlets and plans dealing with the See also:metropolitan water See also:supply, sewage, See also:dock and railway systems. During the last four years of his See also:life he was engaged upon his large subjects of "The See also:Judgment," the " See also:Day of Wrath," and the " Plains of See also:Heaven." He was attacked with See also:paralysis while painting, and died in the Isle of See also:Man on the 17th of See also:February 1854.
End of Article: MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
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