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Description: | Roger Comberbach, Prothonotary of the County Palatinate of Chester and a minor poet, died 1771 aged 51. He leased his house, 20 Castle Street, from Edmund Swettenham of Somerford Booths, who was the father of his first wife, Frances. Heins was a painter and engraver, probably of German birth, but active in Britain. He settled in Norwich and by 1720 was working on a series of portraits of members of prominent local families. While most of his portraits of adults are stolid and bourgeois, those of children are more engaging. Heins also depicted allegorical and historical subjects and candle-light scenes, and he produced genre pieces such as two Scenes from the Life of Thomas Guy (Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1981, lot 59). | Subjects: | portrait (Comerbach Roger) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Heins, John Theodore, Sr. (painter and engraver, probably German, ca. 1697-1756, active in Great Britain) Æ Circle of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8697... | Go to resource |
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