Artist
James Earl
American, 1761–1796
James Earl was an American Neoclassicism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. James Earl was born in Leicester.
Overview
James Earl (May 1, 1761 – August 18, 1796) was an American painter, and younger brother of fellow portrait painter Ralph Earl.
Life and career
James Earl was born May 1, 1761, in Leicester, Massachusetts. He lived and worked in London, England for ten years, where he married and had three children and enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1789. His British clientele were mostly Loyalists living in exile, though there is no evidence that he was a committed Loyalist himself. Among his best known works are Rebecca Pritchard Mills and Her Daughter Eliza Shrewsbury (ca. 1795) and a portrait of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Earl died on August 18, 1796, of yellow fever in Charleston, South Carolina.
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