Johan Graham
Biography
According to the RKD (the Netherlands Institute for Art History), he was born in London but lived mostly in the Hague, where he was active at a young age.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/205249 Johan Graham] in the RKD He travelled to Rome and returned to London but came back to The Hague and was still living there in 1750.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.historici.nl/retroboeken/schouburg/#source=2&page=301 Johan Graham, Part 2, page 276] in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History He became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1742, and was registered as a pupil of Arnold Houbraken, Jacques Ignatius de Roore and Mattheus Terwesten. Houbraken died in 1718, so he can't have studied with him very long, and in 1719 he travelled to Italy, visiting Bologna, Venice, and Rome. He taught English lessons on the side and is known for wall & ceiling decorations. In 1775 he sold his collection of 136 paintings and moved to London with his elderly sister.
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Category:18th-century Dutch painters
Category:18th-century Dutch male artists