John Fayram

Portrait of Elizabeth Carter, ca. 1740

John Fayram, a portrait and landscape painter, practised in London. He died in 1744.

Life

Fayram was active before 1744.

There are by him some slight, coarse etchings of views in the neighbourhood of Chelsea and Battersea, and also one of the Hermitage in Kew Gardens. He also has a number of portraits in national collections. Many of these are of the Hervey family including Felton Hervey.

References

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fayram, John". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.