Joseph Slater, Jr.

Joseph Slater (Possible self-portrait), 1808

Joseph Slater (17 June 1782 – 25 February 1837) was a British portrait painter and draughtsman.

Life

Born in Wandsworth, London, Joseph Slater was a son of Joseph Slater of Bromley (1750–1805), portraitist and decorator and Ann (born Wane).^[1]

Joseph Slater worked as a portraitist in London, exhibiting his first picture at the Royal Academy in 1803, were his portraits were exhibited regularly between 1806 and 1833. Since 1813 he was a portraitist at the Grillion's Club in London.^[2] Many of Joseph Slater's portraits were published as lithographs by his brother Isaac Wane Slater. They both worked since 1805 in the John Bacon's studio at 17 Newman Street. Later the brothers moved down in their own studio with a shop at 70 Newman Street.^[3]

Slater worked predominately in pencil, crayons and watercolor. He was very prolific: his heritage counts about two hundred portraits.

Joseph Slater died in Brighton 55 years old.^[4]

Family

Two brothers of Joseph Slater were also artists: Isaac Wane Slater (1784–1846), miniature painter and line engraver and John Slater (1786–1836), miniature, portrait and flower painter. His other brother Michael Atwell Slater (died 1842) was a Royal Navy officer, a captain, a member of The Royal Geographical Society and an explorer of the coasts of England and Scotland.

References

1. London Metropolitan Archives: City of London. Certificate of registration of birth of Joseph, son of Joseph Slater, gent, and Ann, his wife, d. of Isaac Wane, in Wandsworth, 17 June 1782; from Dr. Williams's Library, Redcross St., near Cripplegate, London. (Ref.: O/027/037; year: 1797)
2. Laurence Binyon: Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain. London: Printed by the order of the Trustees, solder by the British Museum, 1907 p. 104
3. The Beardmore Family Album
4. British Museum

Sources

• Binyon, Laurence (1907). Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain, preserved at the Department of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Vol. IV. London: British Museum. p. 104.

External links

• Works by Joseph Slater at the British Museum
• Portraits of Joseph Slater at the National Portrait Gallery, London