Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar |
Notes |
Julius Caesar Ibbetson was born in 1759 in Farnley, England, allegedly named so due to birth by caesarean section. According to his memoir, his mother fell on ice and went into labor prematurely, resulting in his delivery by "C-section" and her death. He is thought to have been educated in a casual and local Moravian community and then by Quakers in Leeds. After a brief apprenticeship under a ship painter, Ibbetson moved to London where he worked primarily as a picture restorer for Clarke of Leicester Fields. He was often exhibited at the Royal Museum from 1785 onwards. Ibbetson mainly worked in his native England, but also visited Scotland, and throughout 1787-1788 as a draughtsman to China, he visited Java and painted there as well. Ibbetson married his first wife Elizabeth in 1780, and they had three children. After Elizabeth's death in 1794 Ibbetson suffered from brain fever, and awoke to find that he had been robbed by his servants of all his possessions. Ibbetson then moved to Ambleside and married his second wife, Bella Thompson in 1801. In 1805 his family moved to Masham and remained there until his death in October 1817. *Catalog from Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1906 pg 9. #22 "All Hallow's E'en" Lent by: Lieut-Colonel Fairfax Rhodes Painted by: Julius Caesar Ibbetson "A number of figures in a room near a fire; some of them are dancing." Canvas, 18 by 23 ½ in. |
Nationality |
English |
Occupation |
Painter and draughtsman |
