Mason Chamberlin

Mason Chamberlin RA (1727–1787) was an English portrait painter, who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

The subjects of most of them are unnamed in the catalogues but in 1771 he showed a full-length painting of Prince Edward and Princess Augusta and in 1774 one of Catharine Macaulay.

[2] His address is given as 7, Stuart Street, Spitalfields in the Academy catalogues and from 1785 as 10, Bartlett's Buildings.

Later in 1762 (or early 1763) a popular mezzotint was made after it (possibly as part of the agreement between Chamberlin and Ludwell), by the Irish-born engraver Edward Fisher (1730–1785).

[4] His son, also called Mason, was a prolific painter who exhibited 68 landscapes in London between 1780 and 1827, of which 58 were shown at the Royal Academy.

Chamberlin from The Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy by Johan Zoffany
Chamberlin’s portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1762)