Antique Print-PORTRAIT-WILLIAM III OF ORANGE-Valck-Lely-c.1680

Portrait of William III of Orange.

Made by Gerard Valck after Peter Lely.

Medium: Mezzotint on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 26.7 x 37 cm (10.51 x 14.57 inch). Image size: 25.5 x 35.2 cm. (10.04 x 13.86 inch).

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

PORTRAIT-WILLIAM III OF ORANGE | PORTRAIS – MISC

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

State: Smith no.6 (2nd state).

Biography engraver: Gerard Valck (1652-1726) was a Dutch engraver, publisher and cartographer.

Biography artist: Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. He became a naturalised British subject and was knighted in 1679.