John Mogford (1821– 2 November 1885) was an English landscape painter.

Life

Mogford's background was in Devon. He studied at the Somerset House Government School of Design, and then exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Suffolk Street Gallery. He lived in Hampstead, and became a member of the Institute of Painters in Watercolours, where he was known for his Cornish landscapes.

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Mogford taught at the Maddox Street art school, where his pupils included Emily Mary Osborn. He married a daughter of Francis Danby.

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He died on the 2nd November 1885 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

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1821 births

1885 deaths

Burials at Highgate Cemetery

19th-century English painters

English landscape painters

English male painters

English watercolourists

Landscape artists

Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

19th-century English male artists