Ozias Humphry

Ozias Humphry (or Humphrey) RA (8 September 1742 – 9 March 1810)[1] was a leading English painter of portrait miniatures, later oils and pastels, of the 18th century.

Humphry is the spelling Ozias himself used in his signature[2] on the backing card of his miniature of Charlotte, Princess Royal (1769; Windsor Castle).

His problems with his sight, which ultimately led to blindness, began in the early 1770s and forced him to paint larger works in oils and pastel.

[6] He traveled to Italy in 1773 with his great friend George Romney, stopping en route at Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent, where the Duke of Dorset commissioned several works from him.

On his return, his numerous subjects included George Stubbs (1777), fellow academician Dominic Serres, the chemist Joseph Priestley, and allegedly a portrait claimed to be of the teenage Jane Austen, from perhaps as early as 1790 (clothing styles suggest a later date), known as the "Rice" portrait after a later owner, though this has always been a controversial attribution of the sitter.

Portrait of the Opera singer and Actress ' Signora Sestini ' by Ozias Humphry, portrayed as Terpsichore, Muse of Dance and the dramatic chorus, half-length, in a lavender and white dress, playing a lyre
Margravine of Anspach by Ozias Humphry
Charlotte, Princess Royal , 1769, Windsor Castle, by Humphry
Ozias Humphry, RA, 1742–1810, Portrait of Hyder Beg Khan, Dated 1786, Watercolour on ivory V&A Museum no. Evans 142 [ 7 ] Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Antoine Polier - Orientalist Hassan Resa Khan background Nawab Salar Jung Claude Martin - Soldier and polymath Nawab Wazir of Oudh Colonel John Mordaunt Col. Mordaunt's cockfighter Ozias Humphrey - Painter Cockfighting John Wombwell - East India Co. accountant Mr Orr Mr. Robert Gregory Lieutenant Golding - East India Co. Engineer Seated figure Unknown Zoffany - the artist Cockfighter Mr Gregory's cockfighter Use a cursor to explore or click for larger image
Humphry is in the top right of this painting Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match . [ 12 ]