Which English painter, the co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy, was the principal court painter to George III ?
George Watson (painter) George Watson (painter) George Watson RSA (1767 – 24 August 1837) was a Scottish portrait painter and the first president of the Royal Scottish Academy. Watson was born at his father's estate, Overmains, Berwickshire, in 1767, the son of Frances Veitch of Elliott.John Watson. He received his early education in Edinburgh, and got some instruction in painting from Alexander Nasmyth but when 18 years of age he went to London with an introduction to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who received him as a pupil. After two years spent in Reynolds' studio, he returned to Edinburgh, and established himself as a portrait-painter.
George Sanders (painter) Road, London, on 26 March 1846. George Sanders trained and introduced his niece Christina Robertson to a customer basis for her miniatures. She was to become a painter at the Russian court. This Sanders has been confused with George Lethbridge Saunders (1807–1863), miniature-painter, frequently exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1829 and 1853; he was living in 1856. George Sanders (painter) George Sanders (1774 – 26 March 1846) was a Scottish portrait painter. Sanders was born at Kinghorn, Fife, in 1774, and educated at Edinburgh. There he was apprenticed to a coach-painter named Smeaton, and afterwards practised as a miniature-painter