[John Baptist Monoyer] [art original].

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Title: [John Baptist Monoyer] [art original].
Alternative Title: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723 artist.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of John Baptist Monnoyer (bap.1636-1699), French-born painter educated in Antwerp, known for his floral interior decorations, fashionable in France in the second half of the 17th century. He moved to England in 1690 where he continued to specialize in decorating royal and grand houses
Description: Title based on title of engraving in Anecdotes of painting in England.
Drawing that was later used as a basis for an engraving of Monoyer in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, p. 116. Vertue's drawing is based on a chalk drawing by Sir Godfrey Kneller, now in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 30.4 x 24.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Graphite drawings British 18th century
Material: ink and wash ;
Subject (Name): Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste, ca. 1636-1699,
Subject (Topic): Artists
French
Subjects: Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste, ca. 1636-1699
Artists > French
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, John Baptist Monoyer. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.