Conyers Middleton. Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge.
Echardt pinx. [n.d. c.1750.] Fine, uncut copper engraving. Plate 218 x 154mm. 8½ x 6". Conyers Middleton (1683-1750) was an English clergyman. Born and educated in Yorkshire, he went on to graduate from Trinity College Cambridge, taking holy orders later on, and in 1706 he obtained a fellowship, which he resigned upon entering into an advantageous marriage. He wrote several trenchant pamphlets. NPG: D14055.
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Conyers Middleton D.D. Principal Librarian to the University of Cambridge. From an Original in the Collection of the Hon.ble Horace Walpole.
Echardt Pinx.t 1746. Faber fecit 1751. Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square. Rare mezzotint. 330 x 230mm (13 x 9"), with large margins. Uncut. John Giles Eccardt's original oil was commissioned by Horace Walpole, who had purchased Middleton's collection of antiquities for Strawberry Hill in 1744. It is now in the National Portrait Gallery. NPG D4971. CS 241.
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