Antique Master Print-DANIEL-SUSANNA-FALSE WITNESS-Baillie-Eeckhout-1774

Plate showing Daniel accusing the two elders of bearing false witness against Susanna, who stands to left. A guard, two children and a crowd of people stand behind her, while Daniel stands in the centre on a flight of steps below a statue of Justice, arms raised as he questions an old man who is brought before him by an armed guard. Rare.

Made by William Baillie after Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout.

Medium: mezzotint engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 52 x 43 cm (20.47 x 16.93 inch). Image size: 39.5 x 35 cm. (15.55 x 13.78 inch).

Condition: excellent, given age. Top edge a bit uneven, a corner crease in the lower right, original fold in the bottom third of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

DANIEL-SUSANNA-FALSE WITNESS | DP-B1-02

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Rare original master print. It is re-engraved from the state of 1764, this state dated 1774. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by William Baillie after Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout. .

Biography engraver: William Baillie (1723-1810) was an Irish printmaker and art dealer. He joined the British Army around 1742, serving until 1761 and reaching the rank of Captain. His earliest dated print, a portrait of John Golding (Meyer, no. 28) is from 1753. On another (M 81), undated, he acknowledged art instruction from Nathaniel Hone (i). Baillie exhibited prints at the Society of Artists from 1762 and visited The Hague in 1763 to purchase paintings for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1736?1802). Many of his prints reproduce Dutch 17th-century drawings or paintings in his own, or aristocratic collections. He also specialized in prints of Rembrandt’s graphic works. Baillie etched a reversed copy of Rembrandt’s print Three Trees (M 80), adding fork lightning. He owned three Rembrandt plates, including that for the Hundred Guilder Print, which he reworked in 1775. His collected prints went through eight editions between 1776 and 1824. Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favourite student of Rembrandt. He was also an etcher, an amateur poet, a collector and an adviser on art.

Biography artist: Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout (Dutch, 1621-1674).