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Captain William Baillie - Original Original 1761 Etching. Inscribed in plate: 'Dilator, spe lentus, iners, pavidusq; futuri; Difficilis, querulus." Monogrammed in Plate.In fine condition.Captain William Baillie (1723 - 1792). Little is known of William Baillie's artistic schooling, though an undated print credits his training to an English portrait painter and miniaturist. He joined the British Army around 1742, served until 1761, and reached the rank of captain. In 1753 he made his earliest dated print, a portrait. Not surprisingly, he also made drawings and engravings of military costumes. Many of Baillie's prints and drawings reproduce seventeenth-century Dutch paintings or drawings in his own or aristocratic collections. He also specialized in prints after Rembrandt van Rijn's etchings and drawings. He owned three plates from which Rembrandt himself had made prints, including that of the renownedHundred Guilder Print. Baillie himself reworked that plate in 1775. He also etched a reversed copy of Rembrandt's Three Trees, with his own modifications. From 1762 Baillie exhibited at the Society of Artists, England's first public exhibition venue. His collected prints were published in eight editions between 1776 and 1824.For more information please click here.
