Ger. Honthorst pictor [art original]

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Title: Ger. Honthorst pictor [art original]
Alternative Title: Gerrit van Honthorst pictor
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Gerrit van Honthorst (1592-1656), Dutch painter and draftsman, active in Italy
Description: Title from inscription in brown ink, in 18th century hand, below image: Ger. Honthorst pictor.
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published 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. 110.
Signed in graphite, lower right corner: G.V. d.
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 : image 15.2 x 13 cm, on sheet 17 x 13 cm
Language: Latin

Genre: Portrait drawings
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: red crayon with gray wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1592-1656,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Dutch
Subjects: Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1592-1656
Artists > Dutch
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: George Vertue, Ger. Honthorst Pictor. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.