[Samuel Clarke] [art original].

Description

Title: [Samuel Clarke] [art original].
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1729]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Date of production based on sitter's death date. This portrait was done from life, according to a contemporary annotation in ink on verso: This is the portrait of Dr. John Clarke, Rector of St. James Picadilly, drawn after life, by George Vertue.
A second, later annotation in Horace Walpole's hand is also present on verso, offering a correction to the earlier note: I cannot help thinking that his name was Samuel & not John.
One of eight portrait drawings that were probably among the works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. A volume of ca. 50 additional drawings from this collection, now bound in red morocco, has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Laid down on a wash-line mount, with a border of gold paint around the drawing.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Christie's, 20 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 306, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval sheet 94 x 76 mm, mounted to 26.9 x 25.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.2
Collection Title: Volume 2. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [ca. 1757]