Paul Vansomer [art original].

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Title: Paul Vansomer [art original].
Alternative Title: Paul van Somer
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Contributor: Somer, Paul van, 1576-1621, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Paul van Somer (1576-1621), Flemish painter and printmaker
Description: George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Title from item.
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Catalogue of engravers ... / digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the mss. of Mr. George Vertue. Strawberry-Hill : Printed in the year MDCCLXIII [1763], opp. p.92.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 18.4 x 15 cm., mounted on sheet 23 x 16.5 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: black crayon on brown-tinted (oiled?) laid paper ;
Subject (Name): Somer, Paul van, 1576-1621,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Flemish
Subjects: Somer, Paul van, 1576-1621
Artists > Flemish
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Paul Vansomer. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.