John Alexander

Abt 1686 - Abt 1766  (80 years)

• Name	John Alexander
  Birth	Abt 1686	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1748	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  	Painter
  Death	Abt 1766
  Person ID	I45642	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Mr John Alexander,   b. 1650, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - Abt 1686 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Occupation - Painter - 1748 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  "John Alexander, son of an Aberdeen doctor, was the great-grandson of George Jamesone, the most famous Scottish painter of the seventeenth century. After some time in London, Alexander travelled to Italy in 1711 where he studied under Giuseppe Chiari and received commissions from the Stuart court in exile. When he returned to Scotland in 1720 he worked for the Duke of Gordon, a Catholic and a staunch Jacobite, and produced his most ambitious work, a ceiling painting for Gordon Castle. Most of his clients were from the north-east of Scotland and many were Jacobites. He took up arms for Prince Charles in the 1745 Rising and became a fugitive after Culloden but was back in Edinburgh working openly by 1748." National Galleries of Scotland https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/john-alexander