Stephen Slaughter

Stephen Slaughter (baptised 1697, died 1765) was an English portrait painter.

[1] He spent periods of his career in Dublin, where he introduced the English style of portrait painting.

[1] In 1720, on the account of Joseph Highmore, he was at the London academy of Louis Cheron and John Vanderbank.

Returning in 1732–33 to London, Slaughter then set up in Dublin during 1734, paying a longer visit in the 1740s.

[6] On 14 July 1765, two months after his death, he was elected to the Accademia del Disegno, with William Oram.