Portrait of Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704), born in The Hague, immigrated to England when he was 17 and remained there, active as a landscape painter of views of England in the western parts landscapes, chiefly in the Italian manner
Description:
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 129., Title from item., Signed in ink, lower right: ob. 1704 Aeta '49. G.V., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower right below monogram: poss. Mr. Dahl pict., Inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: se ipse pinx., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
"An etching of Hogarth seated at a table, holding in one hand a port-crayon, in the other his print of "John Wilkes E", to which satire this is a rejoinder. Tied to Hogarth's right elbow, as if it were an impediment or guide in the use of his skill, is a bag marked "300£ per ann for distorting features"; he has a pug nose, and an impudent, hard look; his feet are cloven like a satyr's; one of his legs is that of a satyr, and it tramples on the cap and spear of Liberty. His dog 'Trump' squats under the table, on which is a paint-pot containing "Colours to blacken fair carachters [sic]". A palette and sheaf of brushes hang off the collar of the Hogarth's dog; on the palette is the "Line of Beauty". The bag refers to Hogarth's appointment as Serjeant-Painter to the King. Behind Hogarth, an ape appears in the act of drawing or measuring a "Line of Beauty" on a canvas set on an easel. Likewise behind on the left, an ugly, skeletal, old, one-eyed woman in a fontange, her lean bust much exposed, holds a mirror and a fan. The woman may be a reference to Mrs. Hogarth. An owl is drawn on the back of Hogarth's chair
Alternative Title:
Answer to the print of John Wilkes Esqr. by William Hogarth
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 pence"--Following imprint., and On page 294 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 34.8 x 22.3 cm.
Publisher:
Sold in Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
"An etching of Hogarth seated at a table, holding in one hand a port-crayon, in the other his print of "John Wilkes E", to which satire this is a rejoinder. Tied to Hogarth's right elbow, as if it were an impediment or guide in the use of his skill, is a bag marked "300£ per ann for distorting features"; he has a pug nose, and an impudent, hard look; his feet are cloven like a satyr's; one of his legs is that of a satyr, and it tramples on the cap and spear of Liberty. His dog 'Trump' squats under the table, on which is a paint-pot containing "Colours to blacken fair carachters [sic]". A palette and sheaf of brushes hang off the collar of the Hogarth's dog; on the palette is the "Line of Beauty". The bag refers to Hogarth's appointment as Serjeant-Painter to the King. Behind Hogarth, an ape appears in the act of drawing or measuring a "Line of Beauty" on a canvas set on an easel. Likewise behind on the left, an ugly, skeletal, old, one-eyed woman in a fontange, her lean bust much exposed, holds a mirror and a fan. The woman may be a reference to Mrs. Hogarth. An owl is drawn on the back of Hogarth's chair
Alternative Title:
Answer to the print of John Wilkes Esqr. by William Hogarth
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum catalogue., "Price 6 pence"--Following imprint., and Mounted on sheet: 36.2 x 23.2 cm.
Publisher:
Sold in Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797., Hogarth, Jane Thornhill, 1709?-1789, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764., and Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 1 of Plate 2. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and On page 167 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 38.5 x 50.1 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Title engraved above image., "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: 38 x 50 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Title engraved above image. and "One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty". A sculptor's yard (said to be that of John Cheere at Hyde Park Corner) with copies of well-known classical sculptures including the Farnese Hercules, the Antinous, the Laocoon and the Medici Venus; in the foreground, a sheet with three studies of an écorché leg and a man holding a book on proportion; forming a border around the main image are 49 compartments with diagrams relating to the text. The image is numbered throughout in black ink"--See British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Art education, Artists, Figure drawings, and Sculpture
Portrait of John van Belcamp (ca. 1610-1653), Dutch born artist who was employed in England under Abraham Van der Doort (d. 1640) as a copier of the King's paintings in the court of Charles I.
Description:
Title from inscription below image., 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. 101., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
