The Burgomaster, c. 1760

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2001.118.13

Artists / Makers

Richard Houston (artist) Irish, 1721 - 1775

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist after) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Baldinger-Seidenberg, P. von
Constable, John
Stogdon, N.G.

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.