Joshua Kirby

Joshua Kirby (1716 – 1774), often mistakenly called John Joshua Kirby, was an English 18th-century landscape painter, engraver, writer, draughtsman and architect famed for his publications and teaching on linear perspective based on Brook Taylor's mathematics.

Joshua Kirby
Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1755
Born1716
Died1774 (aged 5758)
ChildrenSarah and 1 son
ParentJohn Kirby
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