Charles d'Agar[a] (1669–1723) was a French[5] portrait painter, the son of Jacques d'Agar. Active in England for much of his life, he is most known for portraits made during the Late Stuart and Early Georgian eras.
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D'Agar came to England with his father in 1681. He primarily painted portraits on commission for patrons such as the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Bolingbroke.[6] Some of his works can be found at Nunnington Hall.
Notes
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edit- ^ For example, see Vertue 1930, p. 116; Vertue 1934, p. 15.
- ^ Stein 1907, p. 112; Du Bus 1933, col. 685; Bénézit 2006, p. 148; AKL, Bd. 1 1992; Brême 1996, p. 449; Marciari Alexander 2004, p. 904.
- ^ Lespinasse 1927, pp. 241, 245; Vertue 1930, p. 126; Whinney & Millar 1957, p. 199.
- ^ Cited in Waterhouse 1978, p. 345.
- ^ Stein 1907, p. 112, and Bénézit 2006, p. 148, describe d'Agar as a French painter. Alternately, Marciari Alexander 2004, p. 904, says that "[d'Agar's] œuvre was clearly of more consequence to English art than that of his father."
- ^ "Charles d'Agar Brief Bio". Archived from the original on 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
Further reading
edit- Contemporary accounts
- Vertue, George (1930). "The Note-Books of George Vertue Relating to Artists and Collections in England (I)". The Walpole Society. 18. p. 83, 116, 126–127. JSTOR i40086539.
- Vertue, George (1934). "The Note-Books of George Vertue Relating to Artists and Collections in England (III)". The Walpole Society. 22. p. 1, 4, 15. JSTOR i40086509.
- Scholarly notes
- Dussieux, Louis (1876). Les artistes français à l'étranger (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris, Lyon: Lecoffre. pp. 72, 275–276, 348. OCLC 986071909 – via the Internet Archive.
- Lespinasse, P. (April 1927). "Jacques d'Agar: portraitiste des rois de Danemark". Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French). 5 (15): 241–249 – via Gallica.
- Smith, John Chaloner (1878–1884). British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: H. Sotheran. pt. 1, pp. 325, 406; pt. 3, pp. 1076, 1104, 1117, 1119, 1155, 1213, 1234; pt. 4, pp. 1581–1582. OCLC 1041598596 – via the Internet Archive.
- Stewart, John Douglas (1983). Sir Godfrey Kneller and the English Baroque Portrait. Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 75, 190. ISBN 0-19-817356-3. LCCN 82014249. OCLC 461761506 – via the Internet Archive.
- Walpole, Horace (1879). Anecdotes Of Painting In England. London: Ward, Lock, and Co. p. 322. OCLC 1039484687 – via the Internet Archive.
- Waterhouse, Ellis K. (1978) [1953]. Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790. The Pelican History of Art (4th ed.). Harmondsworth, England; New York: Penguin Books. p. 345. ISBN 0-14-056101-3. LCCN 77019107. OCLC 1245624144 – via the Internet Archive.
- Whinney, Margaret; Millar, Oliver (1957). English Art, 1625–1714. Oxford History of English Art. Vol. 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 199. OCLC 1150992276 – via the Internet Archive.
- Reference books
- Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [originally published in French in 1911]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 1. Paris: Gründ. p. 148. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2 – via the Internet Archive.
- Brême, Dominique (1996). "Agar, Jacques d'". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 1. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 449. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. LCCN 96013628. OCLC 1033664924 – via the Internet Archive.
- Du Bus, Charles (1933). "Agar (Charles d')". In Balteau, Jules; Barroux, Marius; and Prevost, Michel (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. col. 685. OCLC 492149976.
- Kasten, Eberhard; et al., eds. (1992). "Agar, Charles d'". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 1. München, Leipzig: Saur. p. 493. ISBN 3-598-22741-8. OCLC 30486478.
- Marciari Alexander, Julia (2004). "D'Agar, Charles". In Matthew, H. C. G. & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861364-4. LCCN 2004005444. OCLC 1035759463 – via the Internet Archive.
- Redgrave, Samuel (1878). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (2nd ed.). London: George Bell. p. 111. OCLC 1043009709 – via the Internet Archive.
- Stein, Henri [in French] (1907). "Agar, Charles d'". In Thieme, Ulrich and Becker, Felix (eds.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. p. 112. OCLC 1292069254 – via the Internet Archive.
- Stewart, Brian and Cutten, Mervyn (1997). The Dictionary of British Portrait Painters, Up to 1920. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 157. ISBN 1-85149-173-2. LCCN 97-121593. OCLC 1114073952 – via the Internet Archive.
- Waterhouse, Ellis K. (1988). The Dictionary of 16th & 17th Century British Painters. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 65. ISBN 1-851-49036-1. LCCN 89-214208. OCLC 22345566 – via the Internet Archive.