John Collet or Collett, an English artist, born in London in 1725, was a scholar of Lambert

George Lambert (English painter)

George Lambert was an English landscape artist and theatre scene painter. He has been described as the Father of English Landscape Oil Painting.-Life and work:...

, the landscape painter

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

. He painted subjects of humour, somewhat in the manner of Hogarth

William Hogarth

William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...

, approaching him only in vulgarity and caricature. In pieces wherein he did not attempt to imitate that genius, and confined himself to simple objects, he showed considerable merit in the representation of the characters and costume of his time. Several of his pictures have been engraved, and there are some etchings by him. He died in 1780. Two water-colour drawings by him are in the South Kensington Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...

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