1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Benjamin West PRA (1738 – 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years' War. He was the second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Caleb Whitefoord FRS FRSE RSA (1734-1810) was a Scottish merchant, diplomat, and political satirist. In 1782 he served as Lord Shelburne's envoy to Benjamin Franklin on the Peace Commission at Paris. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the.....
1812. Soft ground etching. 1812. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Thomas Barnard, M.A. (1726-1806) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora (1780-1794) and Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe (1794-1806). He was a member of the Literary Club, and well known.....
1814. Soft ground etching. 1814. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Lord Charlemont was well known for his love of Classical art and culture and spent nine years on the Grand Tour in Italy, Greece, Turkey and Egypt. He returned to Dublin and employed the Scottish architect Sir William Chambers to remodel.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton GCB (1758-1815) was a Welsh officer of the British Army, fought in a number of campaigns for Britain in the Napoleonic Wars. He was a military colleague of Macquarie who named the town of Picton in NSW.....
1808. Soft ground etching. 1808. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). George Steevens (1736 - 1800) was an English Shakespearean commentator and friend of Dr Johnson. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). James Barry RA (1741-1806) was an Irish painter, best remembered for his six-part series of paintings entitled The Progress of Human Culture in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). James Northcote RA (1746 – 1831) was an English painter. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his friends, 72 of which were.....
Soft ground etching. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). John Bacon (1740 - 1799) was a British sculptor. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a manufacturer of porcelain at Lambeth, where he painted and then modelled china. In 1758 a small figure of Peace sent by him to the.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). John Flaxman (1755 - 1826) was an English sculptor. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his friends, 72 of which were engraved.....
1812. Soft ground etching. 1812. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). John Francis Rigaud (1742 - 1810) was an eighteenth-century history, portrait, and decorative painter. While Rigaud consistently exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy, "his most lucrative and engrossing employment was decorative painting for the town and country houses of the nobility".....
1810. Soft ground etching. 1810. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). John Hoole (1727 - 1803) was an English translator. Samuel Johnson was a personal friend of Hoole, who wrote an account of Johnson's final days in the European Magazine of 1799. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the.....
1812. Soft ground etching. 1812. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). John Latham (1761-1843) was an English physician. He was elected fellow of the College of Physicians in 1789. In 1795 he became physician extraordinary to the Prince of Wales.He was President of the Royal College of Physicians 1813-19. Dance was an.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). John Zoffany RA (1733-1810) was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his friends, 72.....
1810. Soft ground etching. 1810. 270mm by 200mm (plate mark). Joseph Wilton (1722 - 1803) was an English sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, and the academy's third keeper. A number of his memorials are in Westminster Abbey. Dance was an architect.....
1808. Soft ground etching. 1808. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Major James Rennell, FRS (1742 - 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Rennell was appointed surveyor-general of the East India Company's dominions in Bengal, with a commission in the Bengal Engineers, in 1764. Rennell's survey of.....
1811. Soft ground etching. 1811. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Patrick Russell (1726 - 1805) was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India. He studied the snakes of India and is considered the 'Father of Indian Ophiology'. The Russell's viper, Daboia russelii, is named after him. In 1785 Russell.....
1812. Soft ground etching. 1812. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Richard Budd MD was an English physician who was admitted as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1777. In 1780 he was chosen Physician to the Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew and in 1800 as Physician of the Royal.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Sir Robert Smirke RA (1780 – 1867) was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used other architectural styles. As architect to the Board of Works he designed several major public buildings including the.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Sawrey Gilpin RA (1733 – 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Sir William Chambers RA (1723 – 1796) was a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, London, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy. Dance was an architect, draughtsman.....
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (plate mark). Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805) was an English sculptor. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This portrait comes from a series of chalk portraits that he did of his friends, 72 of which were.....
1814. Soft ground etching. 1814. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Thomas Hardwick (1752–1829) was a British architect and a founding member of the Architects' Club in 1791. Hardwick established a reputation as a church architect, designing the church of St Mary the Virgin at Wanstead (completed in 1790), the Hampstead Road.....
1854 (1794). Soft ground etching. 1854 (1794). 265mm by 200mm (platemark). Impression from 1854 of an engraving first issued in 1794. Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) was an English painter and illustrator. George Dance (1741-1825) was an architect and portrait draughtsman. William Daniell (1769-1837) was an artist and engraver."
1809. Soft ground etching. 1809. 270mm by 200mm (platemark). Sir William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell (1745 - 1836) was an English judge and jurist. He was an early member of the Literary Club founded by Dr Johnson. Dance was an architect, draughtsman and founder member of the Royal Academy. This.....