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.
A scene in a bedroom, the bed in a niche behind a curtain, one man sits as he is being shaved by his servant, as a companion stands with his arms crossed. To their left is an open trunk wotj slippers and boots on the ground on the far left. A fourth man stands apart arrange his queue(?), two pistols on the floor to his right beside an open duffle bag. On the right wall hangs a portrait of Emperor Joseph above a large fireplace; on the left wall hangs a portrait of a woman in profile
Alternative Title:
Shanks Leggs servant shaving him
Description:
Title from ink inscription in lower margin, in the artist's hand., Date from dealer's description., Two additional ink inscriptions by the artist, to the left ("J. Nixon") and right ("G. Nixon") of the title, identify figures depicted in the scene., and Window mounted on to a slightly larger sheet.
Subject (Name):
Nixon, John, -1818,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, British, Shaving, Servants, Bedrooms, Canopy beds, and Fireplaces
"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
