Dan. Mytens pictor magna Britannia Regis [art original].

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Title: Dan. Mytens pictor magna Britannia Regis [art original].
Alternative Title: Daniel Mytens pictor magna Britannia Regis
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Contributor: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of Daniel Mytens (ca. 1590-1674), painter born in Delft in the northern Netherlands. He moved to London in the mid-1610s where his patrons included many members of the royal court and later King James I and Charles I. He returned to The Hague in 1630 where he worked as an art dealer
Description: Title from item.
Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Mytens in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 7. Artist indentified as: Ant. van Dyck pinxt.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, day viii, lot 122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 15 x 11 cm, on sheet 17.5 x 13 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Portrait drawings
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: red crayon ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mytens, Daniel, ca. 1590-1647,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Dutch
Subjects: Mytens, Daniel, ca. 1590-1647
Artists > Dutch
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Daniel Mytens Pictor Magna Britannia Regis. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.