# Nathaniel Plimer

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English painter (1757–1822)

Self-portrait

**Nathaniel Plimer** (1757–1822) was an [English](/source/England) miniature portrait painter.

Plimer was born to a clockmaker, also named Nathaniel, and his wife variously called Mary Elizabeth or Eliza,[1] in [Wellington, Shropshire](/source/Wellington%2C_Shropshire).[2]

He was originally apprenticed as a clockmaker like his brother [Andrew](/source/Andrew_Plimer) but both ran away and travelled for over two years in [Wales](/source/Wales) and the west of England with a troupe of [Gypsies](/source/Roma_people) before settling in London in 1781. He was apprenticed to [Henry Bone](/source/Henry_Bone) the enameler, after working as his manservant, before joining his brother Andrew in studying drawing with [Richard Cosway](/source/Richard_Cosway).[2] He exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) from 1787 until 1815.[3] He exhibited twenty-six works. Many of his smaller portraits are highly regarded.[4]

Plimer lived the rest of his life in London apart from about a decade (1804-1814) in [Edinburgh](/source/Edinburgh), [Scotland](/source/Scotland). Plimer had four children, the youngest of whom, his daughter Adela, married the painter, [Andrew Geddes](/source/Andrew_Geddes_(artist)).[2]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-odnb1_1-0)** *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44*. Oxford University Press. 2014. p. 581. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-861394-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-861394-7).Article by V. Remington.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-odnb2_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-odnb2_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-odnb2_2-2) *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 44*. p. 582.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Perfect Likeness, Aronson & Wieseman, 2006. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-300-11580-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-11580-6)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Williamson, George Charles](/source/G._C._Williamson) (1911). "[Plimer, Nathaniel](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Plimer,_Nathaniel)". In [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm) (ed.). *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 841.

## 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. Nathaniel appears in the same DNB entry.

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