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Corn. Poelenburgh pictor
Author
Title
Corn. Poelenburgh pictor [art original] / G.V.
Production
[England], [between 1720 and 1756?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : red crayon ; image 15.2 x 13 cm, on sheet 19.0 x 15 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title in ink below image in Horace Walpole's hand: Corn. Poelenburgh pictor.
Signed in pencil, lower right: G.V.
Engraved portrait by T. Chambars in Anecdotes of painting in England entitled "Cornelius Polenburg" and identifies the work as a self portrait by the artist: ipse pinxit.
Drawing that was used as a basis for an engraving of Poelenburgh 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. 103.
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, day viii, lot 122. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Biographical / Historical Note
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Summary
Drawing of Cornelis Poelenburgh (1594 or 1595-1667), Dutch painter and draughtsman, one of the first generation of Dutch italianates. He worked in the Court of Charles 1.
Variant and related titles
Cornelis Poelenburgh
Cornelius Polenburg
Format
Images
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
January 30, 2008
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3664
George Vertue, Cornelis Poelenburg. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
George Vertue, Cornelis Poelenburg. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Crayon drawings - British - 18th century.
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