[Jacob Hall] [graphic]Brune, P. de, -1667, engraver[not after 1667]engJacob Hall (fl. 1662-1681), rope dancer and acrobat. See Granger, J. Biographical history of England (1st ed.), v. 2, p. 461Title, artist, printmaker, and date from impression in the National Portrait Gallery, London.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.The Lewis Walpole Library: Ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand mounted below the print: "This is the only impression known of this print of Jacob Hall. It was in the collection of Mr. Ames, is mentioned in his printed Catalogue of English Heads, which were sold by him to Mr. Nichols, then to Dr. Fothergill after whose death this was purchased by Mr. H. Walpole." See The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 1, p. 182, 195.After a painting by Jakob (Jacques) van Oost the Younger.