About John Giles Eccardt
Lived 1720 – 1779 (aged 58–59). John Giles Eccardt was a British painter and visual artist.
John Giles Eccardt ( – 1779) was a German-born British painter who specialised in portrait painting. He came to England in the company of the French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo for whom he worked as an assistant. When Van Loo left England, Eccardt remained and set up a portrait-painting business. In the following years he painted portraits of a number of leading members of British society, including twenty-six paintings of his chief patron Horace Walpole. Eccardt died in 1779.
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Who was John Giles Eccardt?
British artist (1720-1779)
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John Giles Eccardt was born in 1720 in Germany.
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John Giles Eccardt died in 1779 in Chelsea.
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John Giles Eccardt was a painter and visual artist.
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John Giles Eccardt was British.
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