John Hay, Earl of Tweeddale

c. 1710

John Smith

Artist, English, probably 1652 - 1742

Sir Godfrey Kneller

Artist After, English, 1646 - 1723

John Smith after Sir Godfrey Kneller

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.6 x 23.3 cm (13 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
    overall: 36.2 x 25.5 cm (14 1/4 x 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.49

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 256, State undesc

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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.

1926

  • Russell, Charles Edward. English Mezzotint Portraits and Their States. 2 vols. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1926.

Wikidata ID

Q76346448

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