John Giles Eccardt facts for kids

John Giles Eccardt (c. 1720 – c. 1779) was a German-born British painter who specialised in portrait painting. He came to England in the company of the French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo for whom he worked as an assistant. When Van Loo left England, Eccardt remained and set up a portrait-painting business. In the following years he painted portraits of a number of leading members of British society, including twenty-six paintings of his chief patron Horace Walpole. Eccardt died in 1779.

Gallery

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  William Monckton-Arundell, 2nd Viscount Galway

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  Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland

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  Sir Charles Hanbury Williams

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  Richard Bentley

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  Conyers Middleton

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  Thomas Gray

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  Horace Walpole

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  Henry Pelham