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From: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Date: 20040101
Author:IAN CHILVERS
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar
( b Farnley Moor, nr. Leeds, 29 Dec. 1759; d Masham, Yorkshire, 13 Oct. 1817). English painter. His unusual Christian names were given to him because of his Caesarean birth. He specialized in fairly small landscapes with figures and animals, and his style has been characterized by Ellis Waterhouse as ‘more natural than de Loutherbourg's , and more civilized than Morland's ’; Benjamin West called him ‘the Berchem of England’. Ibbetson worked mainly in his native Yorkshire, but also at times in London, Scotland, and the Lake District, ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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