Ozias humphry biography

&#;HUMPHRY, OZIAS (–), portrait-painter, son of John Humphry and Elizabeth Upcott his wife, was born at Honiton 8 Sept.

He was educated at the grammar school there, and at an early age was sent to London, where he studied for two years at the St. Martin's Lane academy and the Duke of Richmond's gallery in Privy Gardens. He returned to Honiton on the death of his father and practised portrait-painting for a short time at Exeter, and in went to Bath, where he lodged with the Linleys, and was articled to Samuel Collins, the miniature-painter.

Ozias humphry biography

The latter retired to Dublin in the following year, and Humphry came again to London, where, encouraged and assisted by Reynolds, he settled, and became a member of the Society of Artists. A miniature of John Mealing the model, which he exhibited with the society in , was purchased by the king, who commissioned him to paint the queen and other members of his family.

Thenceforth Humphry took a