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John Cawse (25 December 1778 – 19 January 1862) was an English painter. ==Life== He was born on 25 December 1778, the son of Charles Woodruffe Cawse and his wife Mary, of Little Prescott Street, Whitechapel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=British Museum )〕 His father described himself in his will as a "Staymaker and Dealer in Whale Fins".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D436671 )〕 Early in his career he was employed to draw caricatures by the print publisher SW Fores.〔 He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1802,〔 showing mostly portraits, but also some paintings of horses and, from the early 1830s, a few historical pictures. Between 1807 and 1845 he exhibited at the British Institution, predominately showing literary and historical subjects, including scenes from the works of Shakespeare and Walter Scott. His portrait of the clown Joseph Grimaldi is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery 〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Portrait Gallery )〕 and his 1826 painting of Carl Maria von Weber is in that of the Royal College of Music.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.legacyweb.rcm.ac.uk/Research+and+Collections )〕 He is best remembered for his book ''The Art of Painting Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, Draperies, &c., in oil colours'', published in 1840.〔Bryan, 1886–9〕 He was an amateur musician who, unusually for the time, played the viola da gamba (i.e. the bass viol); an instrument he once owned is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O90818/bass-viol-tielke-joachim/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Cawse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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