page_title: James Saxon (painter)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: James Saxon (painter) / Works
caption_attribution_description: Sir Richard Phillips, by James Saxon (floruit 1795-1828). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have a known author with unknown death date, but according to the NPG's website the author was floruit (known to be active) prior to 1859, and so is reasonably presumed dead by 1939.
context_page_description: James Saxon was an English portrait painter.
context_section_description: Saxon's portraits show the influence of John Opie. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1795 and 1796, and a total of 17 portraits by 1817.
  The portrait of John Clerk of Eldin from 1805 has a background, showing a system of naval evolution conceived by Clerk, by William Anderson (1757–1837); it went to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. In the same year he painted a portrait of Sir Walter Scott, which was engraved in stipple by James Heath, as an illustration to The Lady of the Lake (1810). A companion portrait (1810) of Lady Scott was engraved by George Baird Shaw for John Gibson Lockhart's Life of Scott.
caption: James Saxon, portrait of Sir Richard Phillips, in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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