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Description: | bound volume (dimensions 54 x 38 x 7 cms) inscr. on plate b.c. "Thomas Gill"; inscr. on plate b.l. "T. Murrey Pinx:"; inscr. on plate b.r. "I: Smith fec: et ex:"; inscr. on page t.r. hand-written in brown ink "94" CRE SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) PUB SMITH, John; (English; 1652-1743) AFTER MURRAY, Thomas; (Scottish; 1663-1734) 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. The remaining third are subject prints after a wide range of artists and subjects, from mythological and religious scenes after old Italian and Dutch and Flemish masters such as Titian and Rubens to fancy subjects after contemporary French and English painters.
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 first half of the 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 and published by Smith after a portrait by Thomas Murray, a Scottish portrait painter who trained in London under John Riley, a fashionable society portrait painter who was appointed principal painter to King William III and Queen Mary together with Kneller in 1689. Thomas Gill was the son of a physician whose portrait Murray also painted (Glaha 16246). The print is one of a small group of miscellenous portraits inserted at the back of volume three. | 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 : THOMAS GILL : YOUTH : BOW : THREE QUARTER LENGTH : OVAL : BOW AND ARROW : SILK : BROACH : WIG : CUPID : 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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