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early life and training charles jervas, an irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector, was born in clonlisk, county offaly, ireland around 1675. he was the son of john jervas and elizabeth, daughter of captain john baldwin of shinrone castle & corolanty, high sheriff of county offaly. jervas studied in london, england as an assistant under sir godfrey kneller between 1694 and 1695. rise to prominence after selling a series of small copies of the raphael cartoons circa 1698 to dr. george clarke of all souls college, oxford, jervas travelled to paris and rome (financially supported b…
A chart of Charles Jervas's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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