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File:Francis Cleyn. Senior Pictor (17th–18th century) by George Vertue.jpg

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George Vertue: English: Francis Cleyn. Senior Pictor.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
George Vertue  (1684–1756)  wikidata:Q930477 s:en:Author:George Vertue q:it:George Vertue
 
George Vertue
Alternative names
George Virtue; Vertue; G. Vertue; Mr. Vertue; Virtue
Description British printmaker and antiquarian
Date of birth/death 1684 Edit this at Wikidata 24 July 1756 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster London
Work location
Greater London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q930477
Title
English: Francis Cleyn. Senior Pictor.
Description
English: A drawing of Francis Cleyn (or Francesco Cleyn or Clein; also Frantz or Franz Klein) (c. 1582 – 1658), a German-born painter and tapestry designer who lived and worked in England.
Date 17th or 18th century (possibly based on an earlier 1646 portrait).
Medium drawing on paper (graphite underdrawing; gray ink and black wash; square border and various details/corrections in brown pen and ink on ivory medium-weight laid paper mounted to a larger sheet of cream medium-weight laid paper).
Dimensions height: 25 cm (9.8 in); width: 17.5 cm (6.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,17.5U174728
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institution QS:P195,Q2583293
Current location
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Collection, Lewis Walpole Library.
Yale University, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America.
Accession number
folio: 49 3664.4; Strawberry Hill ID: sh-000577
Object history
  • 17th or 18th century: Created and owned by George Vertue.
  • 1758: Probably purchased as part of a portfolio of drawings from the artist's widow by Horace Walpole.
  • 1842: Listed at the Strawberry Hill Sale (day 8, lot 112); sold at the Strawberry Hill London Sale as part of "Portraits of English painters collected by Mr Vertue and Mr Walpole" (day 10, lot 1270) by one Evans for £61.19.0.
  • December 1949: Sold by James F. Drake to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis for $1,000 as part of a set of 34 drawings by Vertue, and given by Lewis to the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Inscriptions under image, lower right, signed in ink: "G. Vertue del."; lower right, written in ink: "from an orig in Poses. Mr Crawly at Hampsted. Hartfordsh. An other orig. drawn in Poses. Mr. Rosse."; lower left, written in ink in Italian: "Il famossmo [famosissimo] pittore Francesco Clein / miracolo dell secolo & molto estimato / dell R. Carlo della grande Britagna. 1646" ("The most famous painter Francis Clein / miracle of the century and greatly esteemed / by King Charles of Great Britain. 1646").
References [1].
Source/Photographer Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Other versions Francesco Cleyn (18th century) by Thomas Chambars.jpg Francesco Cleyn (18th century) by Thomas Chambars.tif

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