( - 1788)
Herbert Pugh, landscape painter, was born in Ireland but moved to London about 1758 and lived in the Piazza of Covent Garden. He contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists in 1760 and was elected a member of the Society six years later. Pugh only exhibited at this venue, showing 40 works there in total, including ‘The Morning Visit at Covent Garden’ in 1775. He made several views of London and Surrey, and a few genre works in the manner of William Hogarth. He also painted country estates, including those at Windsor, Harrow, Kenilworth and Warwick. According to the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’, Pugh’s death in 1788 ‘was hastened by intemperate habits’, however no further explanation is given.
