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Satirist, journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist; engraver, draughtsman, painter. Studied in the Royal Academy Schools from 6 December 1773. Entered in the RA Schools Register as `John Williams 2d’; exhibited engravings and drawings at the Society of Arts and the Royal Academy 1770-5; from 1780 to 1783 painted portraits in Ireland. Afterwards worked mainly as a satiric writer in London. He adopted the pen-name ‘Anthony Pasquin’ in 1786.
Born: 1754
Died: 1818
RA Schools student from 06 Dec 1773
Gender: Male
John Williams [pen-name Anthony Pasquin]
A companion to the exhibition of the Royal Academy, M.DCC.XCVI - London: [1796]
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John Williams [pen-name Anthony Pasquin]
The Royal Academy, or, A touchstone to the present exhibition. : By the assistance of which, the merits and demerits of every picture are, with the greatest candour, and much critical labour, made manifest to the observation of the public. These criticisms, now considerably and momentously metamorphosed, meliorated, and augmented, were first promulgated in the Morning post, under the signature of Anthony Pasquin [pseud. of John Williams]. - London: [1797]
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John Williams [pen-name Anthony Pasquin]
The Royal Academicians. A Farce. As It Was Performed To the Astonishment of Mankind, by His Majesty's Servants, at the Stone House, in Utopia, in the Summer of 1786. - - London:: (1786)
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John Williams [pen-name Anthony Pasquin]
Entered at Stationer's Hall. - Legislative Biography; Or, An Attempt To Ascertain The Merits And Principles Of The Most Admired Orators Of The British Senate. Being Intended As A Companion To The Parliamentary Reports. - By Anthony Pasquin, Esq. - [Epigraph] - - London:: [1795]
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[draft] Thomas Lawrence, to [unknown]
[c.Jun 1794]
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Extract from a critique of the 1780 exhibition by Anthony Pasquin
[c.1870]
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Anderdon's notes on exhibit #62, by Thomas Gainsborough
[c.1870]
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Anderdon's notes on exhibit #59, by Benjamin West
[c.1870]
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