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John Baptist Malchair (ca. 1770 – 1812) was a German-born watercolour-artist, violinist, drawing master, and collector of traditional European music. He is described as “one of the most distinctive figures of eighteenth century Oxford”, and is recognised as having been an influence on later landscape artists, including John Constable.〔 ==Life and work== John Malchair was baptised as Johannes Baptist Malscher on 15 January 1730, in St Peter’s Church, Cologne.〔T. B. Healey, ‘Malchair, John (bap. 1730, d. 1812)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 (), accessed 6 Jan 2015〕 He was the son of Elizabetta Roggieri and Joannes Malchair, a watchmaker.〔 He became a chorister at Cologne Cathedral in 1744, which began his career in music. At the age of twenty-four, he moved to Nancy, where he worked as a musician and teacher, and began painting landscapes. In 1750 he came to England, where he was to spend the rest of his life. After initially working in London as a violinist and drawing master, he moved to Lewes, where he met and came under the patronage of the artist Robert Price. In the next decade, he spent time in Bristol, Sussex, Hereford and Wales.〔 In 1760 he married Elizabeth Jenner.〔 Later that year, perhaps assisted by Price’s brother-in-law, Shute Barrington,〔 he was appointed as the leader of the Oxford Music Room (later to become the Holywell Music Room). He settled in Oxford, and worked as a drawing teacher, musician and collector of music, becoming a respected figure in the city.〔 He resigned from the Music Room in 1792 following an incident in which his violin was broken by an orange thrown during a concert.〔 In his later life, Malchair became blind. He continued collecting and composing music, which was notated by his friend William Crotch, the organist at Christ Church.〔 Malchair died in Oxford in November 1812.〔 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 Malchair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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