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John Daniel Bond (1725 – 18 December 1803) was an English painter. One of the earliest figures in the history of art in Birmingham, he was the first of the Birmingham School of landscape artists.[1]

Life and career

Bond was baptised in Stroud, Gloucestershire in July 1725 and probably educated at The Crypt School in Gloucester, where his uncle was an usher.[2] He married Susannah Hodgetts at St Philip's, Birmingham in 1758.[2] He was apprenticed as a painter of japanned and papier-mâché goods to Henry Clay in Birmingham,[3] and from 1757 was in charge of the ornamental department of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory.[1]

Nothing is known of Bond's artistic career until 1761, when he exhibited a landscape drawing after Claude Joseph Vernet at the Society of Artists in London.[2] Between 1762 and 1769 he exhibited over 30 landscapes at the rooms of the Free Society of Artists, exhibiting further works in 1775 and 1780.[2] He won 25 guineas in 1764 for the second best landscape in the exhibition, and in 1765 he won 50 guineas for the first prize.[3]

His productions are described as highly finished landscapes, broad in treatment, after the style of Wilson, R.A.. He seems to have amassed property enough to live a retired life during his latter years. He died at Hagley Row, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 18 December 1803. In 1804, a few months after his death, a number of his pictures and drawings were sold by auction in London.

He was the elder brother of the composer Capel Bond.[2]

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bond, Daniel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
• 1 artwork by or after Daniel Bond at the Art UK site

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