Mr. John Sybrecht landskip painter [art original]

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Title: Mr. John Sybrecht landskip painter [art original]
Alternative Title: Mr. John Sybrecht landscape painter
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756
Contributor: Largillière, Nicolas de, 1656-1746, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of Jan Siberechts (ca. 1627-1703), Flemish born landscape painter who settled in England in the early 1670s and established a reputation for his portraits of country houses
Description: Title from inscription in ink below image.
Signed in ink, lower right: G.V.
Inscription in ink, lower right: ob. 1763 Ata 73. in possess. Mr. Van Ost.
Inscription in ink, lower left: N. Langillire pinx.
Engraving by T. Chambars in Anecdotes of painting identifies artist as: N. Largiliere pinx.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Sybrecht in: Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1763], v. 3, opp. p. 102.
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 15.7 x 13.4 cm, on sheet 20 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray ink and wash with corrections in brown pen and ink, with white highlights ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Siberechts, Jan, 1627-approximately 1700,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Flemish
Subjects: Siberechts, Jan, 1627-approximately 1700
Artists > Flemish
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Mr. John Sybrecht Landscape Painter. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.