Strickland Lowry
1737-c.1785 English/Painted in Ireland
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Brief Biography-Strickland Lowry was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, in 1737. He painted in Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Dublin. Sir John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira, was a devout patron of Lowry. He illustrated Philips’s History and Antiquities of Shrewsbury. Lowry was principally a portraitist but also painted landscapes. He retired to Worcestershire, where he died in c. 1785. His most noted painting is of the Bateson family. Lowry’s son Wilson became a successful engraver in London. |
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