[Henry Cornelius Vroom] [art original].

Description

Title: [Henry Cornelius Vroom] [art original].
Alternative Title: Hendrick Cornelius Vroom
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Contributor: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1566-1640), Flemish born painter who worked briefly in England. Best known for his marine painting and designs for tapestries illlustating the great English naval victories of 1588 over the Spanish Armada
Description: Title and artist from engraving based on this drawing, in Anecdotes of painting in England. Engraving by T. Chambars identifies artist as: Is. Oliver pinxt.
Slight corrects in brown ink.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Vroom in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 1, opp. p. 144.
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 14.5 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: pen, ink and wash, some brown ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz, 1566-1640,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Flemish
Subjects: Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz, 1566-1640
Artists > Flemish
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Henry Cornelius Vroom. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.