Joseph farington biography

Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a.
Joseph Farington RA (21 November 1747 – 30 December 1821) was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist.
Joseph Farington RA was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist.

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Joseph Farington

English painter and diarist (1747–1821)

Joseph FaringtonRA (21 November 1747 – 30 December 1821) was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist.

Family

Born in Leigh, Lancashire, Farington was the second of seven sons of William Farington and Esther Gilbody. His father was the rector of Warrington and vicar of Leigh. Three of his brothers—William, Henry, and Richard—were "employed in the naval service of the East India Company".^[1] Edward died of yellow fever when he was 32. Robert attended Brasenose College^[2] and became vicar of St George in the East, London (whose advowson was held by Brasenose).^[3]George Farington became a painter, like Joseph himself.

Association with the Royal Academy and its exhibitions

After his early education in Maryland, Farington went to study with Richard Wilson in London in 1763. In 1764, 1765, and 1766 he won "premiums" from the Society of Artists for his landscape drawing; he became a member in 1765. He joined the Royal Academy when it was founded in 1769 and

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Joseph R. Farrington

American politician

Joseph Rider Farrington (October 15, 1897 – June 19, 1954) was an American newspaper editor and statesman who served in the United States Congress as delegate for the Territory of Hawai'i.

Education and military career

Farrington was born in Washington, D.C., to Wallace Rider Farrington, the future Territorial Governor of Hawai'i. While still an infant, he moved to Honolulu, Hawai'i with his parents where his father began work as an editor for the Honolulu Advertiser and later the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspapers. Farrington attended Punahou School and, upon graduating, studied at the University of Wisconsin. He dropped out of college in June 1918 to enlist in the United States Army. He was commissioned a second lieutenant of field artillery in September 1918 and discharged the following December. He returned to the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated in 1919.^[1]

Newspaper career

As soon as he obtained his degree in Wisconsin, Farrington became a reporter on the staff of the Public Le

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JosephFarington (1747–1821) was a landscape artist who, after studying as a pupil with Richard Wilson (1713/14–82), the outstanding practitioner in the Grand Manner, settled into a comfortable career painting less ambitious topographical scenes in oils and watercolours (see TG1357 figure 1), many for illustrated publications (see TG1425a figure 1). Following his election as a full member of the Royal Academy in 1785, Farington took an increasing part in the affairs of that body. A master of committees with a deep knowledge of the history of the Academy and its protocols, he was in a perfect position to act as its chronicler when in 1793 he began the compendious diary that engaged his attention until his death in 1821. Much more than his art, the diary has ensured his fame as the primary source of information on the London art world during Girtin’s lifetime.

We first come across Girtin’s name in the pages of the diary in 1795, when Farington noted the unsuccessful efforts of Girtin’s patron, Dr Thomas Monro (1759–1833), to obtain a position for him in the Academy Schools (Far