Drawing of John Riley (1646-1691), fashionable English portrait painter
Description:
Title from the inscription in ink, on top of sheet., Inscription in pencil on verso: Mr. Riley painted this himself. Its in [the] possession of Mr. Leigh in Adlington in. 56170., "R" stamped on verso, lower right with "3/6" written in pencil above., Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Riley in: Anecdotes of painting in England ... / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII, [1762], v. 3, opp. p. 122., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of Anton Shoonjans, artist, born in Antwerp in 1655, died in Vienna 1726 after a self-portrait
Alternative Title:
Anton Shoonjans
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., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
"Portrait, after a self-portrait (Mannings 21); half-length to right and turned to face front, wearing his robes as President of the Royal Academy."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Bound in opposite page 108 (leaf numbered '157' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published May 8, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Copy of Hogarth's self-portrait: Round frame with artist's implements
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 181., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand centered above this print and one to right: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit. p. 297., and On page 147 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane
Drawing of Sir Nathaniel Bacon's based on his self-portrait in oil, circa 1618-20.
Alternative Title:
Sir Nathaniel Bacon
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.1, opp. p. 163., Drawing attributed to Vertue., and Thomas Chambars (1724-1789), English artist.