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Description: | IH, un s. on plate b. r. "Jas Watson sculp."; inscr. on plate b. c. "R. Sayer excudit, Published Sept 20, 1771"; inscr. on plate b. l. "Angelica Kauffman R.A. pinxit" CRE WATSON, James; (Irish; c.1740-1790) AFTER KAUFFMAN, Angelica; (English; 1741-1807) PUB SAYER, Robert; (English; 1725-1793/4) Purchased with the help of the NFA.
Angelica Kauffmann was among the founding members of the Royal Academy, where Dr Hunter was the first Professor of Anatomy. This mezzotint records the parting of Hector and Andromache, one of a number of paintings presented by Kauffman at the first Royal Academy exhibition held in 1769. The Hunterian owns a key neo-classical work, Hector's Farewell to Andromache by Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798) (purchased in 1985 with support from the NFA, NACF, the Pilgrim Trust, and the National Heritage Memorial Fund).
This mezzotint after Angelica Kauffman's own version of the parting of Hector and Andromache predates Gavin Hamilton's capital canvas by a few years and illustrates how such subject-matter was increasingly popular among European artists from the 1760s onwards. | 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: | NEO-CLASSICISM : HECTOR : ANDROMACHE : GREEK HISTORY : ILIAD : HOMER : TRAGEDY : FAMILY : ANTIQUITY : | 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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