John Laporte (artist)

John Laporte (March 1761 – 8 July 1839) was an English landscape painter and etcher, who worked in and around London, England.

From 1785 he contributed landscapes to the Royal Academy and British Institution exhibitions in London, and was an original member of the short-lived society called 'The Associated Artists in Watercolours,' from which he retired in 1811.

[3] They initially issued these etchings as individual plates, upon completion of each (thus bearing publication dates ranging from 1802 to 1805), and then as hand-coloured and bound sets under the title A Collection of Prints, illustrative of English Scenery, from the Drawings and Sketches of Gainsborough (circa 1805; reissued in 1819 by the publisher H.R.

[4] Laporte's Perdita discovered by the Old Shepherd was engraved by Bartolozzi, and his Millbank on the River Thames by Francis Jukes.

[2] His son, George Henry Laporte, was also an artist, who held the appointment of animal painter to the King of Hanover.