Print Description
Portrait of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (1758-1838), an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county of Wiltshire.
Made by Henry Meyer after Henry Edridge.
Medium: Stipple engraving on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 27 x 34 cm (10.63 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 19.6 x 24.6 cm. (7.72 x 9.69 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Paper a bit browned. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
PORTRAIT-SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE | PORTRAIS – MISC
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography engraver: Henry Meyer RBA (c.1782-1847) was an English portrait painter, more known as a stipple and mezzotint engraver. His son, Bernard Francis Hoppner Meyer (1811-1888) was also an artist.
Biography artist: Henry Edridge ARA (1768-1821) was the son of a tradesman and apprenticed at the age of fifteen to William Pether, a mezzotinter and landscapist, and became proficient as a painter of miniatures, portraits and landscapes.
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