George Townley Stubbs - 1792 Mezzotint After Titian, Two Hounds

Description

George Townley Stubbs - Original 1792 Mezzotint. Mixed method mezzotint and roulette. Sander of Oxford had this for sale priced £850. Published 1792 by G. T. Stubbs, London. Unsigned. Two well repaired marginal tears. Age toning as shown.

Title in English and Latin with biblical reference below. Henry Hudson (fl.1782 - 1792). Henry Hudson‘s life and work remains undocumented and he is known only from his plates. Gerard van Honthorst (1592 – 1656), also known as Gerrit van Honthorst and in Italy as Gherardo delle Notti for his nighttime candlelit subjects, was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Utrecht. He was initially trained at the school of Abraham Bloemaert, who exchanged the style of the Franckens for Italianate models at the beginning of the 16th century. Honthorst travelled to Italy in 1616, where he was influenced heavily by the style of Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Returning home in about 1620, after acquiring a considerable practice in Rome, he set up a flourishing school in Utrecht. Together with his colleague Hendrick ter Brugghen, he represented the so-called Dutch Caravaggisti. In 1623 he was president of the Guild of St. Luke in Utrecht, when he also married. He soon became so fashionable that Sir Dudley Carleton, then English envoy at The Hague, recommended his works to the Earl of Arundel and Lord Dorchester. In 1626 he hosted a dinner for Rubens, and painted him as the honest man sought for and found by Diogenes.

Size

37 x 50cm (14.6" x 19.7")
Sheet: 47.5 x 64.5cm (18.7" x 25.4")
Plate: 40 x 50cm (15.7" x 19.7")

Collection Information

From the Christopher Lennox-Boyd collection. We recently acquired a number of fine Mezzotints previously owned by Chris Lennox-Boyd, owner of the finest collection of British Mezzotints in private hands. You can read more about him here.