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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 6) inscr. on plate below image "The Right Hon.ble Lewis Earle of Feversham, Viscount Sonds, Baron of Holdenby, / & Throwley, Captain of his Ma.ties first Troops of Guards, Lord of ye Bed-Chamber to ye King, / Lieuten.t Gen.ll of his Ma.ties Armie, K.nt of ye most noble Order of ye Garter, & Chamberlain / to ye Queen Dowager."; inscr. on plate b.l. "I Riley pinx:"; inscr. on plate b.r. "I. Smith ex:" and "I Beckett fe:"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "59" CRE BECKETT, Isaac; (English; 1653-1688) AFTER RILEY, John; (English; 1646-1691) 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.
This print was made by Smith's teacher Beckett, many of whose plates Smith bought and published after his death and included in collections such as this providing a context to his own work. 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..
Louis Duras, second Earl of Feversham was a soldier and diplomat of French birth. He came to England in the early 1660s and entered the service of the Duke of York. Marrying an English woman, he inherited the earldom from her father. The print is one among a group of portraits of aristocrats positioned together in the 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 : LACE CRAVAT : WIG : EARL : BARON : CAPTAIN : ARMY : ORDER OF THE GARTER : CHAMBERLAIN : 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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