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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "John Duke of Lauderdale, Marquis of March, Earle of / Lauderdale, Vicount Maitland, Barron of Thirlestane, Musselburgh, and Bolton, The Kings High / Commissioner, President of the Council, & Sole Secretary of State in Scotland; Earle of Guilford, Barron of / Petersham, & Privy Councellor in England, Gent of ye Bedchamber to ye King, & Knt of ye most noinscr. on plate b.l.e Order / of the Garter"; inscr. on plate b.l. "J Roiley pinx:"; inscr. on plate b.c. "J. Smith ex:"; inscr. on plate b.r. "J. Beckett fec:"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "46" CRE BECKETT, Isaac; (English; 1653-1688) AFTER RILEY, John; (English; 1646-1691) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1653-1742) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this is one of three volumes together containing 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.
This print was engraved by Smith's teacher Beckett, many of whose plates Smith bought and published after his death. The original portrait was painted 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.
John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale was a politician and a supporter of Stuart king Charles II. This print is among a group of portraits of aristocrats in this volume. A print after a portrait of Lauderdale with his wife is also included in this volume. | 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 : HALF-LENGTH : ALBUM : OVAL : WIG : LACE CRAVAT : STAR : DUKE : MARQUIS : VISCOUNT : HIGH COMMISSIONER : SCOTLAND : SECRETARY OF STATE : ORDER OF THE GARTER : CHURCH OF SCOTLAND : 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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