Members of the Society of Artists congregated round a table. Etching by R. Sawyer, 1829.

  • Hamilton, Gawen, approximately 1697-1737.
Date:
May 1 1829
Reference:
579433i
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Description

A landscape painting and two statues are on the wall in the background. The people may be 'Rosacoronians', members of the Rose and Crown Club, an artists' society in London founded in 1704. The artists identified on the tablet (rightly or wrongly) are 1. John Michael Rysbrack, sculptor, 2. (Grinling?) Gibbons, sculptor, 3. Marcellus Laroon, painter and print-designer, 4. William Kent, architect and painter, 5. Gawen Hamilton, painter, 6. Michael Dahl, portrait painter, 7. John Vanderbanck, painter, and 8. Charles Bridgeman, landscape architect. Not the Society of Artists of Great Britain, which existed 1761-1791, i.e. after several of the artists depicted here had died

Publication/Creation

London (3 Hay Market) : W.B. Tiffin, May 1 1829.

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 32.2 x 35.7 cm

Lettering

This plate, representing portraits of the members of a society of artists that existed about the year 1730, is engraved from an original sketch in oil by William Hogarth, in the possession of the publisher, in which reference is made to the names of the characters upon a tablet, as above. Etched by Richd. Sawyer The artists are identified on a tablet, upper left, as 1. Rysbrack, 2. Gibbons, 3. Larroon, 4. Kent, 5. Hamilton, 6. Dahl, 7. Vanderbanck and 8. Bridgman

Creator/production credits

In the Ashmolean Museum online catalogue the composition is attributed to Gawen Hamilton, while the lettering on this print attributes it to Hogarth

Reference

Wellcome Collection 579433i

Reproduction note

After: a painting in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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