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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "John Sheffield Earle of Mulgrave Ld Chamberlain of his Ma:ties Household / Gentleman of his Bedchamber Collonell of the Holland Regiment Gouernour of Hull / Lord Lieutenant for the East Rideing of Yorkshire, Vice Admiral of Yorkshire, Northum- / berland and Bishoprick of Durham; Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and / One of his Ma.ties most Hon.ble Privy Council. Created Marquess of Normandy 1694. / Duke & Marquess of Buckingham-Shire 1703. Dyed Feb. 24. 1721.''; inscr. on plate b.r. "G. Kneller Eques pinx. / J. Smith Fecit et excud"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "54"
CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER KNELLER, Godfrey, Sir; (English; 1646-1723) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) 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.
Smith's close association with leading portrait painter Kneller, author of this portrait, was key to his success. From around 1690 almost all engravings after portraits by Kneller, were executed by Smith.
One of a group of Lords and Earls grouped together in the volume, John Sheffield, first Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was a tory politician and author. He had a keen interest in the arts and a painting by Correggio belonging to Sheffield was engraved by Smith and is included in volume three (Glaha 16618). | 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 : LORD LIEUTENANT : WIG : LACE CRAVAT : GEORGE : EARL : WAND : VICE ADMIRAL : PRIVY COUNCIL : ORDER OF THE GARTER : 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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