Francis Milner Newton
1720–94
Portrait painter. Studied at St Martin’s Lane Academy, London. Important figure in the formation and organisation of the precursors to the Royal Academy of Arts. Served as the academy’s first secretary, 1768–88.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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