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Description: | bound volume inscr. bc. "Mrs. Conwai Hackett."; inscr. bl. "I. pinxit"; inscr. br. CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER RILEY, John; (English; 1646-1691) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes which together contain 488 mezzotints, almost all made or published by John Smith. About two thirds are portraits of eminent late Stuart, early Hanoverian persons, and one third fancy and mythological subjects.
Instrumental in raising the standard of mezzotint portraits, Smith was the first British printmaker to gain a European reputation, and examples of his work were essential for any serious early to mid 18th century European print collection.
Hunter's set of volumes is a rare surviving example of a comprehensive collection of mezzotints compiled in the 1730s.
Very little is known about the sitter, Mrs Conway Hackett. The print is after a portrait by John Riley, a fashionable society portrait painter who was appointed principal painter to King William III and Queen Mary together with Kneller in 1689. It is included in the second volume among other portraits of the wives and daughters of eminent men. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PORTRAIT : KNEELING : WREATH : LAMB : JOHN HACKETT : BISHOP OF LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY : EDWARD, LORD CONWAY : SIR ANDREW HACKETT : ALBUM : BISHOP : VOLUME : HUNTER VOLUME : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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