Sevonyanse portrait painter se ipse pinx. / [art original]

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Title: Sevonyanse portrait painter se ipse pinx. / [art original]
Alternative Title: Anton Shoonjans
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Contributor: Shoonjans, Anton, 1655-1726, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of Anton Shoonjans, artist, born in Antwerp in 1655, died in Vienna 1726 after a self-portrait
Description: Title from item.
Signed in pen in lower right of mount: G.V.
In contemporary hand in lower center of early mount: in poss. Mr. Judice Margate.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Anton Shoonjans in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 3, opp. p. 126.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans [Lilly?] at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from James F. Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 16.6 x 13.3 cm, mounted to 20.5 x 14.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: red crayon on blue paper with white highlights ; and 6 10/16 x 5 3/16 mounted to 8 1/8 x 5 9/16.
Subject (Name): Shoonjans, Anton, 1655-1726,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Flemish
Subjects: Shoonjans, Anton, 1655-1726
Artists > Flemish
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Sevonyanse Portrait Painter. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.