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Francesco Cleyn
Author
Title
[Francesco Cleyn] [art original] / G.V. [monogram].
Production
[England], [between 1720 and 1756?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink and pencil ; sheet 12.7 x 12 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Cleyn 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. 127.
Exhibited: "Portraits of Painters: Drawings by George Vertue and Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, September 2008 - February 2009.
Provenance
Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Biographical / Historical Note
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Summary
Drawing of Francis Cleyn, formerly Franz Klein, painter and tapestry designer born in German and raised at the Danish court. After travelling in Italy, he moved to England in 1623 and worked in the Court of Charles I.
Variant and related titles
Francis Cleyn
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2008
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3664
George Vertue, Francesco Cleyn. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
George Vertue, Francesco Cleyn. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
Graphite drawings - British - 18th century.
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