Moses Haughton the elder

An Owl (ca. 1780 - 1790), oil on panel

Moses Haughton, sometimes spelt Horton (ca. 1734 – December 24, 1804) was an English designer, engraver and painter of portraits and still life.

Life and work

Haughton was born in Wednesbury, Staffordshire and baptised on 27 March 1735.^[1] He trained as an enamel painter and was employed at the workshop of Hyla Holden in Wednesbury, before moving to Birmingham to work for John Baskerville and Henry Clay in 1761, where he worked on enamelled, japanned and papier-mâché products.

He was noted for his portraits and still-life paintings of dead game, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1788 and 1804; He also illustrated a notable edition of the Bible in the late eighteenth century.^[2]

Haughton was said to be of a "quiet and retiring disposition" and was not known much outside Birmingham during his lifetime. He lived for many years at Ashted, outside the city. He died on 24 December 1804 and was buried in Wednesbury, a marble monument being erected in his memory at St. Philip's Church, Birmingham.

His son, Matthew Haughton, was an engraver, and his nephew, Moses Haughton the younger (1773-1849), a painter and engraver.

References

1. ^ Weinglass, D. H. (2004). "Haughton, Moses, the younger (1773–1849)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online Edition ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12615. Retrieved 2008-02-29. 
2. ^ "Biography for Moses Haughton". BMAGIC. Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. http://www.bmagic.org.uk/people/Moses+Haughton. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Haughton, Moses the elder". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. pp. 169-170. http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio51stepgoog#page/n184/mode/1up. 

External links

• Moses Haughton the elder on Artnet
• A Shepherd (Drawing at the Tate Collection, London)
• Engraved portrait of Joseph Johnson (National Portrait Gallery, London)

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