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ALEXANDER, Johne
(1650-)
ALEXANDER, John Painter and Engraver, Jacobite 1745
(About 1686-)
INNES, Isobel
(About 1700-)
ALEXANDER, Cosmo John Painter, Jacobite 1745
(About 1724-1772)

 

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ALEXANDER, Cosmo John Painter, Jacobite 1745 1 2

  • Born: About 1724 1
  • Died: 25 August 1772, Edinburgh, Scotland 1

   Another name for Cosmo was ALEXANDER, Cosmos.3

   User ID: E575.

  General Notes:

"Alexander was the son of John Alexander, a painter and engraver from Aberdeen, and was named Cosmo after Cosmo Gordon, son of the Jacobite Duke of Gordon. In 1745 he took part in the Jacobite Rising, which concluded with the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden in January 1746.

Like many other prominent Jacobites he fled to Europe, arriving in Rome in 1747. He was commissioned to paint Bonnie Prince Charlie, and continued to paint portraits of the exiled Jacobites as he traveled through Italy and then France over the following years. He settled in London in 1754, where the architect James Gibbs, his friend and fellow Scots Catholic, had left him a house. Over the following decade he worked in London, Scotland and the Netherlands, joining the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1765.

In 1766 Alexander moved to Philadelphia and painted portraits of the Scottish communities of the American colonies. In 1768, William Franklin, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, invited Alexander to his mansion in Burlington to do commission work. The next year, in Newport, Rhode Island, Alexander took on an assistant named Gilbert Stuart, who was then 14 years old. Alexander and Stuart traveled in the southern states, and in 1771 Alexander returned with Stuart to Scotland. Stuart planned to continue his studies under Alexander, but the elder painter died in Edinburgh the following year on 25 August 1772."

from peoplepill.com website 4


Sources


1 Internet Site, http://www.jameslindlibrary.org/articles/sir-george-chalmers-c-1720-1791-portraitist-of-james-lind/.

2 Internet Site, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Article: George Chalmers of Cults.

3 e-books, Scottish Painting Past and Present, 1620-1908 by J.L.Caw.

4 Internet Site, https://peoplepill.com/people/cosmo-alexander Cosmo Alexander Scottish painter.

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