Thomas Patch

Thomas Patch ( baptized March 31, 1725 in Exeter, † April 30, 1789 in Florence) was a British painter, caricaturist and engraver, who lived mainly in Italy.

Life

Patch was the son of a surgeon and should also be a doctor, like two of his brothers who were also surgeons. But early in his apprenticeship with a pharmacist he was rather caricatures of urban residents of Exeter. Before the end of his medical studies, he went on the Grand Tour, and came to Rome in 1747. There he met Joshua Reynolds, with whom he became friends, and turned to painting, first in the studio of the French painter Claude Joseph Vernet. He painted Pastichen his works and own landscape pictures about Tivoli ( Lazio ). One of his sponsors in Rome ( and generally a patron of artists) was the Irish Lord Charlemont ( 1728-1799 ), who was in Rome from 1748 that had Academy of English Professor of the Liberal Arts founded and patch as member orders for images gave. Patch was known in Rome for his pugnacity and his frank words and was described by contemporaries as eccentric. He came in 1751 with the Inquisition in Rome in conflict and had to rely on the instructions of the bishop in the same year Tivoli. In 1755 he had to leave on the instructions of the Inquisition Rome, the exact reason is not known. Patch went to Florence, where he was a close friend of the British ambassador Horace Mann. He portrayed and caricatured by traveling Englishmen on the Grand Tour and was also an art dealer. His paintings were very popular with by traveling Englishmen. He is depicted in a famous portrait of the English art lovers in Florence in Italy by Johann Zoffany ( The Tribuna of the Uffizi ).

In 1763 he painted three views of Florence, the (possibly. Directly purchased by George III ) came into the British Royal Collection. He also painted David Garrick on his visit to Italy in October 1767 and the eruption of Vesuvius.

In 1772, he published a book on the Tuscan Renaissance painter Fra Bartolomeo ( 1472-1517 ).

Gallery

Patch Lord William Cavendish, William FitzHerbert and her tutor Mr. Short, 1780