# Andrew Plimer > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andrew_Plimer > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andrew_Plimer.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Plimer > Source revision: 1281484358 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) English painter Portrait by [Andrew Geddes](/source/Andrew_Geddes_(artist)), 1815 **Andrew Plimer** (baptized 29 December 1763 – 29 January 1837) was a British artist, whose brother was [Nathaniel Plimer](/source/Nathaniel_Plimer), also a painter of miniatures. Although originally stated in the *Dictionary of National Biography* to have been born in [Bridgwater, Somerset](/source/Bridgwater%2C_Somerset), he has been more recently established to have been born in [Wellington, Shropshire](/source/Wellington%2C_Shropshire), where he was [baptised](/source/Baptism) on 29 December 1763, younger son of Nathaniel Plimer (born 1726), a clockmaker, and his wife, variously named as Mary Elizabeth or Eliza.[1] He and older brother Nathaniel trained as clockmakers but both ran away from home and travelled for over two years in [Wales](/source/Wales) and the west of England with a troupe of [Gypsies](/source/Roma_people). About 1781 they settled in London where Andrew took up work as a manservant to [Richard Cosway](/source/Richard_Cosway), who later trained him in portrait painting.[1] [Caroline Price](/source/Uvedale_Price%2C_1st_Baronet) (1755–1826) by Andrew Plimer Plimer specialised in [portrait miniatures](/source/Portrait_miniatures). His work was exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) from 1768 to 1810 and in 1819. His most famous painting is of the three daughters of [Sir John Rushout](/source/John_Rushout%2C_1st_Baron_Northwick). His brother Nathaniel Plimer also became a pupil of Cosway and a painter of miniatures.[1] Plimer married on 21 February 1801, Joanna Louisa, daughter of John and Frances Knight of [Wicken, Northamptonshire](/source/Wicken%2C_Northamptonshire).[1] The couple had one son who died in infancy and four daughters. He died in Western Cottages, Western Road, [Brighton, Sussex](/source/Brighton%2C_Sussex), in January 1837 aged 73 and was buried on 4 February at [Old Hove](/source/Hove).[1] His wife's younger sister [Mary Ann Knight](/source/Mary_Ann_Knight), another miniaturist, was a pupil and friend of Plimer.[1] ## Notes This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-odnb_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-odnb_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-odnb_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-odnb_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-odnb_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-odnb_1-5) Remington, V. "Plimer, Andrew". *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (online ed.). Oxford University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ref:odnb/22382](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F22382). (Subscription, [Wikipedia Library](https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/88/) access or [UK public library membership](https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.) ## References - ["Plimer, Andrew"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Plimer,_Andrew). *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. London: [Smith, Elder & Co](/source/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co). 1885–1900. - Cust, Lionel Henry (1892). ["Knight, Mary Ann"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Knight,_Mary_Ann). In [Lee, Sidney](/source/Sidney_Lee) (ed.). *[Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*. Vol. 31. London: [Smith, Elder & Co](/source/Smith%2C_Elder_%26_Co). - [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). ["Plimer, Andrew"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Plimer,_Andrew). *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)* (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - ["Portrait miniatures: from Richard Cosway to Andrew Robertson"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110801192905/http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/portrait-miniatures-cosway-robertson/). *Victoria and Albert Museum*. Archived from [the original](http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/portrait-miniatures-cosway-robertson/) on 1 August 2011. - ["Portrait minatures: artist biographies M-Z"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110801153526/http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/portrait-miniature-artist-biographies-m-z/). *Victoria and Albert Museum*. Archived from [the original](http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/portrait-miniature-artist-biographies-m-z/) on 1 August 2011. ## External links - Williamson, George Charles (1903). 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