Moses Haughton the Elder

Moses Haughton, sometimes spelt Horton (c. 1734 – 24 December 1804) was a British designer, engraver and painter of portraits and still lifes.

[1] He trained as an enamel painter and was employed at the workshop of Hyla Holden in Wednesbury, before moving to Birmingham to work for John Baskerville and Henry Clay in 1761, where he worked on enamelled, japanned and papier-mâché products.

This life school was so successful that in 1814 it was moved to a larger space in Union Passage.

Haughton was noted for his portraits, such as that of Lady Louisa Tollemache, Countess of Dysart, and still-life paintings of dead game, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1788 and 1804.

He died there on 24 December 1804 and was buried in Wednesbury; a marble monument with his portrait, sculpted by Peter Rouw was erected in his memory at St Philip's Church, Birmingham.