PHILLIP

John (son of a soldier). b. 13 Skene sq. Aberdeen 19 April 1817; apprenticed to Spark, a painter and glazier in Wallace Nook, Aberdeen 1832–6; studied painting in London 1836–40; subject and portrait painter; exhibited 55 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–67: A.R.A. Nov. 1857, R.A. Nov. 1859; painted for the queen The marriage of the prince royal with the crown prince of Germany 1858; studied and painted in Spain 1851–2, 1856–7, 1860; 200 of his pictures were in the London international exhibition of 1873. d. 1 South villas, Campden Hill, Kensington 27 Feb. 1867. W. C. Monk house’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 164–8; Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 306–8 (1862); I.L.N. xxxv 543, 560 (1859) portrait , l 285 (1867) portrait ; T. O. Barlow’s Catalogue of the works of J. Phillip 1873; J. Dafforne’s Pictures of J. Phillip 1877; Leisure Hour xvi 629 portrait ; Illust. Times 9 March 1867 p. 149 portrait .