James Latham (c. 1696 – 1747)

• Was an Irish portrait painter.
• James Latham was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, in the Kingdom of Ireland.

• As ‘Jacobus Latham, schilder’, became a member of the guild of St Luke in Antwerp (1724 to 1725).

• He returned to Dublin by 1725.

• Anthony Pasquin memorably dubbed Latham "Ireland's Van Dyck."

• He settled in Dublin in 1725, where he married a woman named Joan and had four daughters and one son.

• He was living in Trinity Street, Dublin, when he died 26 January 1747.

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