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Description: | s in plate in outer oval border r. "Nanteuil Sculpebat 1674"; inscr in plate in outer oval border l "Michelin Pinxit"; inscr in plate in inner oval border "IOANNES FRIDERICVS DVX BRVNSVICENSIS LVNEBVRGICVS CALENBRERGENSIS GOTTINGENSIS GRVBENHAGENSIS. & c." CRE NANTEUIL, Robert; (French; 1623-1678) AFTER after Michelin, Jean; (French; 1623-1695) NFA and NACF assisted purchase. R. Nanteuil was born in Reims, and was in Paris by 1647. He was named king's engraver in 1659. LABEL The Brunswick-Lunebourg family is among the ancestors of the House of Hanover, from which the present British Royal Family descends. Nanteuil was the most successful portrait engraver of the mid-17th century French School. Unlike many others, he used his own drawings as the basis of his engravings, combining tonal qualities and a sophisticated linear technique with a remarkable likeness of his sitters. | 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 : MASK : NACF : MAN : | 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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