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ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT
Gorinchem c1566–1651 Utrecht
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BOETIUS ADAMS BOLSWERT
Bolsward 1580–1633 Antwerp
A leading Dutch Mannerist painter, Bloemaert was particularly influential through his drawings.
He made some 1500 drawings, a considerable number of which were specifically produced to be engraved for his Drawing Book of figures, and for a number of landscape series.
Aside from his son, Bloemaert’s principle engraver was Boetius Bolswert (elder brother of Schelte à Bolswert), who engraved pastorals and series of landscapes, amongst others.
Landscape with two Figures by a Pond
(cf Hollstein 361)
105 x 161 mm
Etching, with the plate number 4.
A reduced reverse copy of the Bolswert engraving, c1613, after Bloemaert, from a series of Four Landscapes.
On thin laid paper with an unidentified watermark.
Trimmed to the plate.
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JEAN BAPTISTE LE PRINCE
Metz 1734 – 1781 Lagny sur Marne
Le Prince moved from his native Lorraine to Paris about 1750, where he studied with François Boucher.
From 1757 to 1762 he travelled extensively in Russia. As well as being employed by Catherine the Great in St Petersburg, he produced many drawings of the Russian countryside and daily life.
On his return to France they formed the basis of his paintings and etchings, in which he essentially created a new kind of genre subject.
L’Hiver  Winter
Hédou 84
223 x 149 mm
Etching, 1768, from a series of the four Seasons, 1767-8.
The plate signed and dated.
On stout laid paper with an Auvergne Dovecote watermark.
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DAVID CHARLES READ
Boldre, near Lymington 1790 – 1851 Kensington
Read went to London as a youth and trained as an engraver with John Scott.
Poor in health he returned to the country and in 1820 settled in Salisbury, where he got to know Constable.
Read lived in the Cathedral close, working as a drawing master.
He took up etching and, a novelty at that date, drypoint, and from 1826-1844 produced 237 plates, mainly of landscapes; all of which he catalogued.
Read acquired his own press within a few years and issued his own plates in series, in small editions, though without huge success.
In 1845, before making a trip to Italy for his health, Read destroyed 63 of his etching plates and after his death six years later, his family destroyed the rest.
River Landscape
115 x 207 mm
Original drypoint, c1830.
On wove paper trimmed to narrow margins and corner mounted to a larger sheet of wove.
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BRIAN DENYER-BAKER R.E. A.R.C.A.
Born Storrington, Sussex 1949
Trained at Brighton under Dick Cowern, and at the Royal College of Art, Denyer-Baker worked as a freelance designer and illustrator from 1961 to 1990.
From 1990 he has devoted himself full time to etching and sculpting.
Reflections, San Marco, Venice
303 x 141 mm
Original colour etching and aquatint.
Signed in pencil, entitled and numbered 5/75.
On stout wove paper.
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ADOLPHE APPIAN
Lyon 1818 – 1898 Lyon
Adolphe Appian (born Jacques Barthélémy) is one of the minor masters of French 19th century etching, unjustly neglected.
He trained and spent most of his life in Lyon and the surrounding area, rather than being drawn to Paris (though Cadart, in Paris was his agent and published many of his etchings).
Lyon attracted artists and Corot and Daubigny both made painting trips in the area. Appian met them in the early 1850’s, probably in 1852, just when Appian was devoting himself to art. He would work with them on painting visits to Fontainebleau in 1855 and 1856.
Perhaps it was the example of Daubigny that inspired Appian to take up etching in 1853.
Environs de Rix (Ain) Near Rix in Ain
Curtis & Prouté 13 iii/iv, Jennings 11
88 x 174 mm (plate); 169 x 252 mm (sheet)
Original etching, 1864.
The plate lettered with Appian’s name, the title and Delâtre’s name as printer.
Second issue, in Hamerton’s Etching & Etchers, 1868.
On laid paper with part of a Hallines watermark.
The sheet red-edged on two sides.
£120
Hamerton commented ...
“I selected it …for its fine sentiment … it has great freedom, and there is no superfluous work”.
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FERDINAND SCHMUTZER
Vienna 1870 – 1928 Vienna
Schmutzer, from an immediate family of sculptors, initially trained as a sculptor, then as a painter in Vienna.
It was a study trip to the Netherlands, 1894-96, and the impact of Rembrandt, that inspired him to take up etching (his great grandfather had been an engraver) and he would become a leading etcher in Vienna. He also had an early interest in photography.
Appointed Director of the Vienna Academy 1908, his home, the Villa Schmutzer, in Stenwartestrasse, was a centre of the intellectual, literary, musical and artistic life of Vienna, he and his wife entertained such celebrities as Einstein, Freud, Richard Strass, Pablo Casals, Josef Joachim, among others. He etched their portraits, sometimes on an innovatory large scale.
He also made etchings of landscapes and cityscapes.
Antwerp Cathedral
Weixlgärtner 136 i/ii
279 x 153 mm
Original etching and soft-ground c1910.
Signed in pencil.
Printed on japan.
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