Joshua Kirby

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