Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1763?]
Call Number:
Portraits V568 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Bust of George Vertue with cap, in oval, looking left, after oil painting by Richardson
Description:
Title from text below image., Plate originally issued preceding "The life of George Vertue" in: Walpole, H. Catalogue of engravers. Strawberry-Hill : 1763., and Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
Portrait of Henry Stone (ca. 1655-1726), English painter, son of Nicholas Stone English sculptor and architect
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., 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. 2, opp. p. 31., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Portrait of Henry Tilson (1659-1695), English portrait painter, pupil of Sir Peter Lely
Description:
Title from item., 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. 103., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
SH Contents H217 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 33
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Portrait of Margaret Smith, wife of Sr. Charles Bingham ...
Alternative Title:
Margaret Smith, wife of Sir Charles Bingham, an excellent paintress
Description:
Title from Horace Walpole's note on verso: Margaret Smith, wife of Sr. Charles Bingham, an excellent paintress, by Hamilton 1774., Also with a poem on verso in Walpole's hand: Without a rival long on painting's throne, Urbino's modest artist sat alone. At last a British fair's unerring eyes, in five short moons contests the glorious prize, Raphael by genuis nurs'd by labour gain'd it, Bingham but saw perfection, and attain'd it. H.W.", Hugh Douglas Hamilton, English portrait and subject painter, 1739-1808., and No. 20 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library.
