John Wollaston (mai zane)

John Wollaston (mai zane)
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Landan, 1710
ƙasa	Kingdom of Great Britain (en)
Mutuwa	Bath (mul) , 1775
Ƴan uwa
Mahaifi	John Wollaston the Elder
Sana'a
Sana'a	painter (en)
Artistic movement	portrait painting (en)

John Wollaston ( fl. 1742 – 1775) ɗan ƙasar Ingila ne wanda ya ƙware a fannin zane-zane kuma ya fi yin aiki a Arewacin Amurka ta Birtaniya. Yana ɗaya daga cikin ƴan masu zane-zane da suka gabatar da salon zane-zanen Rococo na Turanci ga yankunan Arewacin Amurka na Birtaniya.

Tarihin Rayuwa

Ba a san komai game da rayuwar Wollaston a farkon rayuwarsa ba. Ana kyautata zaton ɗan wani mai zane ne, wanda aka haifa a Landan . Wasu majiyoyi sun ba da sunan mahaifinsa a matsayin John Wollaston; wasu kuma, suna ambaton Littafin Horace Walpole na Zane a Ingila na 1765, sun nuna cewa sunan mahaifinsa John Woolston ne, kuma daga baya ya canza sunansa zuwa Wollaston.

Hakazalika, ba a san komai game da horon fasaha da ya samu ba; Charles Willson Peale, a cikin wata wasiƙa da aka rubuta a shekarar 1812 kuma ya rubuta wa ɗansa Rembrandt, ya ambaci cewa Wollaston ya yi horo a Landan da zanen zane, amma babu wani abu da aka rubuta.

A fannin salo, aikin Wollaston yana da kama da hotunan Thomas Hudson da Allan Ramsey, da sauransu, kuma an yi hasashen cewa malaminsa Joseph van Aken ne, wanda ya kammala zane-zanen da waɗannan da sauran masu fasaha na wannan lokacin suka yi. Ana iya ganin cewa Wollaston ya ɗauki kansa a matsayin Ba’amurke maimakon Ba’amurke ta hanyar lakabin da ke bayan hoton William Smith, Jr. wanda aka zana a 1751; lakabin ya kwatanta mai zane a matsayin "Johnannes Wollaston Londoniensis".

Aikin farko da Wollaston ya yi wanda aka rubuta shi da aminci, wanda aka yi a shekarar 1742, hoton mai wa'azin Methodist ne George Whitefield ; ainihin har yanzu yana nan, a cikin tarin Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa da ke Landan. John Faber Ƙarami ne ya samar da wani zane a bayansa. Akwai wasu zane-zane kaɗan da suka faru kafin tafiyarsa zuwa yankunan mulkin mallaka, ciki har da hoton wani jami'in rundunar sojojin ruwa ta Royal Navy wanda ba a san ko waye ba wanda yanzu yake cikin Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa.