# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:02:16.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-kirby"
name: "Joshua Kirby"
slug: "joshua-kirby"
description: "Joshua Kirby, 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."
tagline: "British artist (1716-1774)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Joshua_Kirby_by_Thomas_Gainsborough_c.1755.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1716"
deathDate: "1774-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.91
  momentum:             1.2
  historical:           5.671238666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kirby"
    title: "Joshua Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kirby"
    title: "Joshua Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kirby"
    title: "Joshua Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kirby"
    title: "Joshua Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kirby"
    title: "Joshua Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joshua_Kirby"
    title: "John Joshua Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5910691"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump