Portrait painter Joseph Blackburn was likely born in Great Britain. His parentage and details of his early life are unknown. The earliest record of Blackburn as a painter is his arrival in Bermuda in... Read full biography
Portrait painter Joseph Blackburn was likely born in Great Britain. His parentage and details of his early life are unknown. The earliest record of Blackburn as a painter is his arrival in Bermuda in 1752. During his two-year stay there he painted at least twenty-five portraits for the Pigott,... Read full biography
Portrait painter Joseph Blackburn was likely born in Great Britain. His parentage and details of his early life are unknown. The earliest record of Blackburn as a painter is his arrival in Bermuda in 1752. During his two-year stay there he painted at least twenty-five portraits for the Pigott, Jones, Harvey, Tucker, Gilbert, and Butterfield families. A number of these pictures remain on the island in the hands of descendants. In the best of these, such as Mrs. Thomas Jones, Blackburn exhibited... Read full biography
Portrait painter Joseph Blackburn was likely born in Great Britain. His parentage and details of his early life are unknown. The earliest record of Blackburn as a painter is his arrival in Bermuda in 1752. During his two-year stay there he painted at least twenty-five portraits for the Pigott, Jones, Harvey, Tucker, Gilbert, and Butterfield families. A number of these pictures remain on the island in the hands of descendants. In the best of these, such as Mrs. Thomas Jones, Blackburn exhibited a considerable skill at painting lace and ribbon and other details of dress. This ability has led some scholars to speculate that he was first trained as a drapery painter in a larger English studio. Blackburn's whereabouts after leaving Bermuda for... Read full biography
Portrait painter Joseph Blackburn was likely born in Great Britain. His parentage and details of his early life are unknown. The earliest record of Blackburn as a painter is his arrival in Bermuda in 1752. During his two-year stay there he painted at least twenty-five portraits for the Pigott, Jones, Harvey, Tucker, Gilbert, and Butterfield families. A number of these pictures remain on the island in the hands of descendants. In the best of these, such as Mrs. Thomas Jones, Blackburn exhibited a considerable skill at painting lace and ribbon and other details of dress. This ability has led some scholars to speculate that he was first trained as a drapery painter in a larger English studio. Blackburn's whereabouts after leaving Bermuda for the American colonies on the mainland are well documented, as he signed and dated over half of the more th... Read full biography
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