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(b London, 31 Jan. 1735; d ?nr. Aleppo, Turkey [now Halab, Syria], ?1786). English portrait painter. After working in the Midlands and London, he became one of the first British painters to risk a long visit to India, where he spent the years 1769–76 and made a fortune painting nabobs and princes.
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Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)