[Isaac Brodeau] M.r Brodeau of Oxford.
G. Roth Jnr Pinxit et fecit. [n.d., c.1765.] Scarce mezzotint. Sheet 150 x 110mm (16 x 4¼"). Trimmed into image at right, into inscription at bottom, thread margins elsewhere. A half-length seated portrait of Isaac Brodeau (d.1768), reading a book, wearing spectacles and a short white bell-bottomed wig. ''The sitter in this portrait is thought to have been either the keeper of a coffee house in Oxford, or a silversmith'' (Christies sale of the painting, 1997). Christies and Alexander identify the painter as George Roth (c.1742-1821), the BM as William (Guillaume) Roth, died c. 1770. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67827] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)