John Hamilton Mortimer

(1740-1779)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779 DNB: Mortimer, John Hamilton (1740-1779), painter and etcher LBT ID: JoMorti1779 VIAF ID: 59164068 LOC ID: nr95022913	B/BAP: 1740-09-17 DIED: 1779-02-04
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English history painter who made banditti a speciality. He painted scenes from Spenser and frontispieces for John Bell's Poets of Great Britain.
REFERENCES TO John Hamilton Mortimer: Robert Southey to Messrs. Longman and Rees, 11 November 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) First Prose; The Weekly Messenger; The News. Found 1: ¶ 95 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805