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Peter Paillou (the younger)

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Died
  
1831 or 1832

Nationality
  
British


Known for
  
Portrait painting

Name
  
Peter Paillou

Peter Paillou (the younger)

Peter Paillou (1757–1831 or 1832), was a British painter of portraits including miniatures.

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Life and work

Paillou was the son of a natural history painter and illustrator also named Peter Paillou, who is believed to have been born in France before migrating to England.

He practised in London for 20 years before moving to Glasgow for some years, where an 1803 advertisement states that he charged eight guineas for a miniature and ten guineas for a three quarter length portrait in oils.

Works in national collections

  • National Portrait Gallery (Mary, Queen of Scots; Ralph Wardlaw)
  • Victoria and Albert Museum (William Rowley, miniatures)
  • BBC Your Paintings (Ann Ruthven Leven Bell, Robert Findlay)
  • Fitzwilliam Museum (Susannah Wedgwood, the mother of Charles Darwin)

    • References

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