John Joshua Kirby
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John Joshua Kirby was an 18th century landscape painter, engraver, and writer from the United Kingdom, famed for his pamphlet on linear perspective based on Brook Taylor
's math.
He was the son of John Kirby (topographer)
, and the father of the writer Sarah Trimmer
and the engraver William Kirby
.
Kirby was made an honorary member of the painter William Hogarth
's instructional project, the St Martin’s Lane Academy, where he lectured on perspective. Hogarth later made his famous print, Satire on False Perspective
, as the frontispiece to Kirby's famous pamphlet published in 1754 called Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice. The pamphlet was very popular and was reprinted several times. His fame became such that it gained Kirby a royal appointment.
According to the RKD he moved in 1755 to London, and then in 1760 he moved to Kew, where he taught linear perspective to George III of the United Kingdom
.
Brook Taylor
Brook Taylor FRS was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.- Life and work :...
's math.
Biography
John Kirby (topographer)
John Kirby was an English land surveyor and topographer. His book The Suffolk Traveller, first published in 1735, was the first single county road-book....
, and the father of the writer Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Trimmer was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the eighteenth century...
and the engraver William Kirby
William Kirby
Image sourcesPortraits of the Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum ....
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Kirby was made an honorary member of the painter William 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"...
's instructional project, the St Martin’s Lane Academy, where he lectured on perspective. Hogarth later made his famous print, Satire on False Perspective
Satire on False Perspective
Satire on False Perspective is the title of an engraving produced by William Hogarth in 1754 for his friend John Joshua Kirby's pamphlet on linear perspective.The intent of the work is clearly given by the subtitle:-Summary:...
, as the frontispiece to Kirby's famous pamphlet published in 1754 called Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice. The pamphlet was very popular and was reprinted several times. His fame became such that it gained Kirby a royal appointment.
According to the RKD he moved in 1755 to London, and then in 1760 he moved to Kew, where he taught linear perspective to George III of the United Kingdom
George III of the United Kingdom
George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...
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