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[Belgium: Nicolas Rockox]
[Andrew Geddes after Rubens]
Etching, platemark 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾").
Nicolas Rockox (1560-1640), Burgomaster of Antwerp and patron of Rubens. He is remembered by the Museum Rockoxhuis in his former residence in the city. Copy after Rubens by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. This plate is one of ten he published in 1826. CD 45.vii
[Ref: 36807] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Child with Apple]
A Geddes ft [lower left]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 160 x 140mm (6¼ x 5½").
Portrait of the artist's niece, Agnes Paul. Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. CD 18.v; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36803] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
[Portrait of an old woman]
[Andrew Geddes after Jacques Jordaens]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 145 x 125mm (5¾ x 5").
Portrait of an old woman inspecting a ring, after the Flemish painter and contemporary of Rembrandt, Jacques Jordaens (1593-1678). Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. This plate was one of ten published by Geddes in 1826. CD 37.iii; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36804] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Old woman asleep] 24
[Andrew Geddes after Rembrandt]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 80 x 60mm (2¾ x 2½").
Copy in reverse of a Rembrandt etching, by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching’'. CD 39.ii
[Ref: 36806] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Isabella Clara Eugenia in the habit of the Order of St Clare]
[Etched by Andrew Geddes after Anthony van Dyck]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 225 x 150mm (8¾ x 6"). 'Printed by E Lumsden' in pencil lower right.
Isabella, daughter of Philip II and ruler of the Spanish Netherlands (1566-1633) with her husband Albert. After Albert's death she became a nun, in which habit she is shown here. Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844) after a portrait by van Dyck (Turin, Galleria Sabauda). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. This impression was printed by the printmaker and author Ernest Lumsden, who must have acquired the plate. CD 46; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36801] £95.00
(£114.00 incl.VAT)
[Philip IV of Spain]
Vandyke. Geddes fc.
Etching with very large margins, platemark 230 x 155mm (8¾ x 6"). 'Printed by E Lumsden' in pencil lower right.
Portrait of Philip IV (1605-1665), king of Spain and Portgual. He is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velazquez, and his rule over Spain during the challenging period of the Thirty Years War (1618-48). Etched after a portrait by van Dyck, by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching’'. This plate was one of ten published by Geddes in 1826. CD 47.vii; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36802] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Archibald Skirving.]
[A. Geddes.]
[British, n.d., c.1820.]
Etching with drypoint, 225 x 160mm. 9 x 6¼".
Portrait of Scottish portrait painter Archibald Skirving (1749 - 1819). His most successful portraits were executed in crayon. The best known is his crayon portrait of Robert Burns, executed partly from Nasmyth's famous portrait. By Andrew Geddes (Scottish, 1783 - 1844), portrait painter and occasional etcher. DNB. See Scot. Nat. Portrait Gallery PG 745 for the Burns portrait. C.D. 15 VI.
[Ref: 22827] £50.00
(£60.00 incl.VAT)
[Dull Reading: with portraits of Daniel and Elizabeth Terry]
A Geddes ft [upper centre of image]
Etching with very large margins, platemark 140 x 175mm (5½ x 7").
Portraits of the actor Daniel Terry and his artist wife Elizabeth, seated in a dark room. Etched by the Scottish painter and etcher Andrew Geddes (1783-1844). The Oxford DNB states that 'as an etcher Geddes ranks higher than as a painter; his plates may be regarded as among the very earliest examples in modern British art of the brilliancy, concentration, and spirited selection of line proper to a ‘painter's-etching''. This plate was one of ten he published himself in 1826. CD 16.iii; Ex: collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 36800] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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