Stephen Slaughter

He was the son of Stephen and Judith Slaughter, was baptised in London, and had the artist Judith Lewis as a sister. It has been claimed that John Lewis (fl. 1737–1769), also an artist, was Slaughter's brother-in-law; but it is disputed whether Lewis was the husband of Judith Slaughter.{{cite journal |last1=Laffan |first1=William |title='Taste, Elegance and Execution': John Lewis as a Landscape Painter |journal=Irish Arts Review Yearbook |date=1999 |volume=15 |pages=151–153 |jstor=20493057 }}{{cite journal |last1=Lord |first1=Peter |title=The Two Lives of John Lewis |journal=Irish Arts Review |date=2005 |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=114–119 |jstor=25503176 }} Slaughter studied under Godfrey Kneller from 1712. In 1720, on the account of Joseph Highmore, he was at the London academy of Louis Cheron and John Vanderbank.{{cite book|author=Warren Mild|title=Joseph Highmore of Holborn Row|page=[https://archive.org/details/josephhighmoreof0000mild/page/175 175]|year=1990|publisher=Mild Associates|isbn=978-0-9627517-0-7|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/josephhighmoreof0000mild/page/175}}

There followed a long period abroad, in France and Flanders. Returning in 1732–1733 to London, Slaughter then set up in Dublin during 1734, paying a longer visit in the 1740s.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-british-picture-restorers/british-picture-restorers-1600-1950-s.php|title=National Portrait Gallery - British picture restorers, 1600-1950 - S|accessdate=27 May 2015}} Slaughter influenced in particular Thomas Frye, as did James Latham.{{cite web|url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/biographies-of-irish-artists/thomas-frye.htm|title=Thomas Frye, Irish Portrait Painter: Biography, Paintings|accessdate=27 May 2015}}

In 1745, Slaughter became Surveyor of the King's Pictures, in succession to Peter Walton. From 1748 he spent time on picture restoration. On 14 July 1765, two months after his death, he was elected to the Accademia del Disegno, with William Oram.{{cite journal |last1=Wynne |first1=Michael |title=Members from Great Britain and Ireland of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno 1700-1855 |journal=The Burlington Magazine |date=1990 |volume=132 |issue=1049 |pages=535–538 |jstor=884351 }}

File:Portrait of Major General Richard St George by Stephen Slaughter (London 1697-1765).jpg

• 1736 Sir Hans Sloane{{cite DNB|wstitle=Slaughter, Stephen|volume=59}}
• 1737 Hon. John Spencer
• 1737 Lady Georgiana Spencer, wife of the Hon. John Spencer
• 1742 Sir Robert Walpole
• 1744 William Stewart, 1st Earl of Blessington{{cite book|author=Ric Berman|title=Schism: The Battle That Forged Freemasonry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfdWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR8|date=1 August 2013|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-78284-006-0|page=viii}}
• 1744 Major General Richard St GeorgeOf Kilrush House, Freshford, County Kilkenny. See Great Irish Households.
• 1744 Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon{{cite book|author=E. M. Johnston-Liik|title=MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jitdluWSybIC&pg=PR5|year=2006|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|isbn=978-1-903688-60-1|page=v}}
• 1744 John Hoadly
• 1753 Sir George Lee{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/slaughter-sir-george-lee-t00674|title=Sir George Lee, Stephen Slaughter, Tate|accessdate=27 May 2015}}
• Nathaniel Kane

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