John Lord Sommers

1713

John Smith

Artist, English, probably 1652 - 1742

Jonathan Richardson, Sr.

Artist After, English, 1667 - 1745

John Smith after Jonathan Richardson, Sr.

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.2 x 25.1 cm (13 7/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.2 x 28.5 cm (15 13/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.47

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 234


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.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: The Rt. Honble. John Lord Sommers.; lower left in plate: J. Richardson pinx. 1713,; lower center in plate: I. Smith fec.; lower right in plate: Sold by J Smith at the Lyon & Crown in Russell Street Covent Garden

Wikidata ID

Q76346476


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