Portrait of Adriaen Hanneman (c.1604-1671), Dutch portrait painter, who lived in London from 1626 until around 1640 when he returned to The Hague. He had a long career painting portraits of exiled English royalists and the Dutch court as well as other wealthy residents of The Hague
Description:
Title from inscription in ink, in 18th century hand, lower left: Adrian Hanneman Pictor, Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 120., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Portrait of Cornelis Ketel (1548-1616), Dutch painter, draftsman, poet, and sculptor, born in Gouda in the Netherlands, moved to London in 1573 where he painted portraits until his return to the Netherlands in 1581
Alternative Title:
Cornelis Ketel painter
Description:
Title from item., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in: Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v.1, opp. p. 137., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Portrait of Gerrit van Honthorst (1592-1656), Dutch painter and draftsman, active in Italy
Alternative Title:
Gerrit van Honthorst pictor
Description:
Title from inscription in brown ink, in 18th century hand, below image: Ger. Honthorst pictor., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England / by Mr. Horace Walpole. [Strawberry-Hill] : Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, MDCCLXII [1762], v. 2, opp. p. 110., Signed in graphite, lower right corner: G.V. d., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Portrait of Orazio Gentileschi (1563-639), Pisan-born painter, whose style was influenced by Caravaggio after they met in 1600. Gentileschi moved to London in 1626 at the invitation of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, the favourite and chief minister of Charles I from whom he received a pension
Alternative Title:
Orazio Gentileschi
Description:
Title from inscription in ink below image., Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 113., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Drawing of the effigies of Rene of Anjou and his wife on their tombs
Alternative Title:
René of Anjou and his wife
Description:
Artist unknown., With a collection of tracings by an unidentified artist from drawings by John Rous. Horace Walpole had the drawings traced and then engraved for his Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. See London edition, 1768 and Strawberry Hill edition 1770., and Title from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand: "René of Anjou & his wife, parents of Margaret, Queen of Henry 6th.
Subject (Name):
René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, 1409-1480. and Isabelle, Queen, consort of René I, King of Naples and Jerusalem, -1453.