Antique Master Print-HENRY-DANVERS-EARL-OF-DANBY-Green-van Dyck-1775

Medium: Mezzotint engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 35.56 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 inch). Image size: 35 x 50 cm. (13.78 x 19.69 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

HENRY DANVERS, EARL OF DANBY, VALENTINE GREEN, SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK, MEZZOTINT, PORTRAIT, STATESMAN | EXPO-LARGE-MPRINTS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Josiah Boydell, 1775.

State: Third state.

Reference: Accession number EPL 16.1, Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Biography engraver: Valentine Green (1739-1813) was a British mezzotinter and print publisher. Green trained under Robert Hancock, a Worcester engraver, after which he moved to London and began working as a mezzotint engraver. He began to exhibit with the Incorporated Society of Artists from 1766, became a fellow a year later and a director in 1771. He was appointed mezzotint engraver to the King in 1773, and the following year was elected an associate engraver with the Royal Academy. Throughout the 1770s and 1780s, Green’s engraving practice flourished. In the 1790s, however, several of his international speculations failed and in 1798 he was declared bankrupt. In 1805, he accepted the role of keeper of the British Institution, a post he held until his death.

Biography artist: Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.