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John Izard Middleton was born on August 13, 1785, at "Middleton Place" near Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of Mary (Izard) and Arthur Middleton, 1742-1787. His father died soon after the son's birth.
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John Izard Middleton was born on August 13, 1785, at "Middleton Place" near Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of Mary (Izard) and Arthur Middleton, 1742-1787. His father died soon after the son's birth.
John is said to have been educated in England at the University of Cambridge.
Having inherited his mother's large fortune he was able to devote his time to painting, for which he had no small talent and in which he attained some reputation. He took up his residence in Italy and spent most of his life there and in France. Endowed by nature with uncommon gifts, which he had cultivated to advantage, he found ready access to good society and "was received on terms of intimacy in circles into which foreigners seldom gained entrance". Two years after his marriage, in 1812, he published in London a volume with numerous colored plates, Grecian Remains in Italy, a description of Cyclopian Walls and of Roman Antiquities with Topographical and Picturesque Views of Ancient Latium. In his introduction, he wrote that in such a work as his the artist was perhaps more important than the scholar. Therefore, he had made a collection of very accurate drawings, which were published in the book not merely to accompany the text but as the principal object of the publication. He said that he wrote the book because he had drawn the pictures. He had made the sketches while traveling in Italy during 1808 and 1809 with two English gentlemen, one of whom was Edward Dodwell later distinguished as an archeologist. Appearing as it did in a year crowded with events and at a time when scholarly communication between the United States and Europe was interrupted by war, Middleton's volume received little notice. Some of the drawings were used in later work on archeology without acknowledgment to the investigator who produced them, and his name has been largely forgotten. Nevertheless, the work deserves to be remembered not only for its pioneer place in the early history of the study of antiquity but also because the accuracy and precision of its detail are notable even in a later day. He died in Paris and his body was brought to America and laid in the family vault at "Middleton Place. "
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Middleton married on June 11, 1810, Eliza Augusta Falconet, the daughter of Jean Louis Theodore de Palazieu Falconet. By her, he had three children, all of whom died young.