George Francis Joseph

George Francis Joseph ARA (1764 – 1846) was an English portrait painter.

He practised in London until 1836, when he retired to Cambridge; there he died in 1846, having continued to exhibit at the Academy until that year, and was buried in St. Michael's churchyard.

[1] In 1792 Joseph gained the Royal Academy gold medal for a Scene from Coriolanus.

In 1811 the British Institution awarded him a premiums for his Return of Priam with the dead body of Hector, and again in 1812 for his Procession to Calvary.

[1] Joseph painted "fancy" subjects, and made designs for book illustrations, but is best known as a portrait-painter.