Nathaniel Plimer

[[File:Nathaniel Plimer - Self-Portrait - Walters 3884 cropped.jpg|thumb|Self-portrait]] '''Nathaniel Plimer''' (1757–1822) was an [[England|English]] miniature portrait painter.

Plimer was born to a clockmaker, also named Nathaniel, and his wife variously called Mary Elizabeth or Eliza,<ref name=odnb1>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44|year=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=581|isbn=978-0-19-861394-7}}Article by V. Remington.</ref> in [[Wellington, Shropshire]].<ref name=odnb2>{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44|page=582}}</ref>

He was originally apprenticed as a clockmaker like his brother [[Andrew Plimer|Andrew]] but both ran away and travelled for over two years in [[Wales]] and the west of England with a troupe of [[Roma people|Gypsies]] before settling in London in 1781. He was apprenticed to [[Henry Bone]] the enameler, after working as his manservant, before joining his brother Andrew in studying drawing with [[Richard Cosway]].<ref name=odnb2/> He exhibited at the [[Royal Academy]] from 1787 until 1815.<ref>Perfect Likeness, Aronson & Wieseman, 2006. {{ISBN|0-300-11580-6}}</ref> He exhibited twenty-six works. Many of his smaller portraits are highly regarded.<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Plimer, Nathaniel|volume=21|page=841|first=George Charles|last=Williamson|author-link=G. C. Williamson}}</ref>

Plimer lived the rest of his life in London apart from about a decade (1804-1814) in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]. Plimer had four children, the youngest of whom, his daughter Adela, married the painter, [[Andrew Geddes (artist)|Andrew Geddes]].<ref name=odnb2/>

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==References== * {{cite DNB|wstitle=Plimer, Andrew}} Nathaniel appears in the same DNB entry.

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