John Collet or Collett, an English artist, born in London in 1725, was a scholar of Lambert, the landscape painter. He painted subjects of humour, somewhat in the manner of Hogarth, approaching him only in vulgarity and caricature. In pieces wherein he did not attempt to imitate that genius, and confined himself to simple objects, he showed considerable merit in the representation of the characters and costume of his time. Several of his pictures have been engraved, and there are some etchings by him. He died in 1780. Two water-colour drawings by him are in the South Kensington Museum.
This article incorporates text from the article "COLLET, John" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.