Daniel Bond

'''John Daniel Bond''' (1725 – 18 December 1803) was an English painter. One of the earliest figures in the history of art in Birmingham, he was the first of the Birmingham School of landscape artists.<ref name="Grant">{{Citation|last=Grant|first=Maurice Harold|year=1958|title=A chronological history of the old English landscape painters, in oil, from the 16th century to the 19th century|location=Leigh-on-Sea|publisher=F. Lewis|volume=2|page=167|oclc=499875203}}</ref>

==Life and career== Bond was baptised in Stroud, Gloucestershire in July 1725 and probably educated at The Crypt School in Gloucester, where his uncle was an usher.<ref name="DNB">{{Citation|last=Grindle|first=Nicholas|year=2004|contribution=Bond, Daniel (bap. 1725, d. 1803), ''painter and japanner''|contribution-url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2820|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|edition=Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com|access-date=2012-01-14}}</ref> He married Susannah Hodgetts at St Philip's, Birmingham in 1758.<ref name="DNB" /> He was apprenticed as a painter of japanned and papier-mâché goods to Henry Clay in Birmingham,<ref name="Birmingham-catalogue">{{Citation|last1=Wallis|first1=Whitworth|last2=Chamberlain|first2=Arthur Bensley|year=1904|contribution=Bond, (J. Daniel)|title=City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Illustrated Catalogue (with descriptive notes) of the Permanent Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, and the Pictures in Aston Hall and elsewhere|location=Birmingham|publisher=Hudson and Son|page=206|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedcata00gallgoog|access-date=2012-01-15}}</ref> and from 1757 was in charge of the ornamental department of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory.<ref name="Grant" />

Nothing is known of Bond's artistic career until 1761, when he exhibited a landscape drawing after Claude Joseph Vernet at the Society of Artists in London.<ref name="DNB" /> Between 1762 and 1769 he exhibited over 30 landscapes at the rooms of the Free Society of Artists, exhibiting further works in 1775 and 1780.<ref name="DNB" /> He won 25 guineas in 1764 for the second best landscape in the exhibition, and in 1765 he won 50 guineas for the first prize.<ref name="Birmingham-catalogue" />

His productions are described as highly finished landscapes, broad in treatment, after the style of Wilson, R.A.. He seems to have amassed property enough to live a retired life during his latter years. He died at Hagley Row, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 18 December 1803. In 1804, a few months after his death, a number of his pictures and drawings were sold by auction in London.

He was the elder brother of the composer Capel Bond.<ref name="DNB" />

==References== {{reflist}} *{{DNB|wstitle=Bond, Daniel}} *{{Art UK bio}}

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