Marcellus Laroon the Younger (1679 – 1772)

• Was an English painter and draughtsman of French origin.
• Laroon was born in Chiswick, Middlesex.
• His father Marcellus Laroon was a Dutch-born painter and engraver.
• Laroon the Elder brought his son to England whilst a child, and his career was entirely in England.
• In 1707 he enlisted in the army, participating in campaigns in Flanders, Spain and Scotland.
• During a break on half-pay from military life (c. 1712-15) he joined the Rose and Crown Club in London and trained in Godfrey Kneller's Academy of Painting and Drawing.
• Most of Laroon's paintings date from after his retirement from the army, with the rank of captain, in 1732.
• In the late 1750s Laroon settled in Oxford, where he died in 1772.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Marcellus Laroon the Younger, Self-Portrait, ca. 1720.
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