Andrew Plimer

Caroline Price (1755-1826) by Andrew Plimer

Andrew Plimer was a British artist, born in Wellington, Shropshire in 1763 and died in Brighton in 1837.

Plimer specialised in portrait miniatures. His work was exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1768 to 1810 and in 1819. His most famous painting is of the three daughters of Sir John Rushout. His brother was Nathaniel Plimer, also a painter of miniatures; both were pupils of Richard Cosway.

Mary Ann Knight, another miniaturist, was a pupil and friend of Plimer

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References

•  "Plimer, Andrew". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
•  Cust, Lionel Henry (1892). "Knight, Mary Ann". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 
•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Plimer, Andrew". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• "A History of the Portrait Miniature - Victoria and Albert Museum". Vam.ac.uk. 2013-11-04. Retrieved January 2014. 

External links

• George Charles Williamson - Andrew & Nathaniel Plimer, miniature painters, their lives and their works, 1903, from the Internet Archive

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