The Burgomaster

c. 1760

Richard Houston after Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Richard Houston

Artist, Irish, 1721 - 1775

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist After, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image displays a portrait of a man seen from the waist up. The man is seated, facing slightly to the right. He has a solemn expression, deep-set eyes, a prominent nose, and a full beard and mustache. His light hair reaches down to his shoulders. He wears a large, dark hat, a garment with buttons down the front, and a ruffled white collar. The man also wears a bracelet on his right wrist. The chair he sits in has decorative buttons and detailing on the upper part of the backrest. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.1 x 25 cm (13 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.1 x 26 cm (14 3/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 147, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Constable; Max Paul Albert von Baldinger-Seidenberg (1837-1904), Stuttgart (Lugt 212). Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: R H; by later hand, lower center in graphite: JC 79/I; by later hand, lower right in graphite: R. Houston; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 17972 / 44; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Houston, Bürgermeister nach Rembrandt / from pic in coll. of John Barnard / A 39 CS 47 i/ii C 79 i/ii; by later hand, lower right in graphite: P43702; Coll: John Constable, R.A. / and P. von Boldinger-Seidenberg

Wikidata ID

Q76355892

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