Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1759–1816)

• Was a British 18th-century landscape and watercolour painter.
• Ibbetson was born at Farnley Moor, Leeds.

• He was the second child of Richard Ibbetson, a clothier from Yorkshire.

• According to his Memoir, his mother fell on the ice and went into premature labour, causing him to be delivered by caesarean section and resulting in a middle name he attempted to hide throughout his life.

• Ibbetson was probably educated at a local Moravian community and then by Quakers in Leeds.

• Ibbetson was apprenticed to John Fletcher, a ship painter in Hull, from 1772 to 1777.

• He then moved to London, where for the next ten years he was primarily a picture restorer for a Clarke of Leicester Fields.

• In 1782 wrote an account of his life, and sent it to the artist Benjamin West which was transcribed by Joseph Farington in 1805.

• Around 1780, Ibbetson married his first wife, Elizabeth. 

• In 1785, Ibbetson began exhibiting at the Royal Academy with View of North Fleet.

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