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Mr. Thomas Betterton Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem.
G. Kneller. pinx: R: Williams fe:
E: Cooper Ex: [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Age toned.
Thomas Betterton (c. 1635 - 1710), actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I. Charles II sent Betterton to Paris to study improvements to stage craft, introducing shifting scenes rather than tapestry to the English theatre. He and his actress wife, Mary Saunderson, were regarded as respectable in a period when acting was seen as indecent, and were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's Calisto, 1675, in the last Stuart court Masque.
Chaloner Smith 7, ii of iv. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7833] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller. pinx: R: Williams fe:
E: Cooper Ex: [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Age toned.
Thomas Betterton (c. 1635 - 1710), actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I. Charles II sent Betterton to Paris to study improvements to stage craft, introducing shifting scenes rather than tapestry to the English theatre. He and his actress wife, Mary Saunderson, were regarded as respectable in a period when acting was seen as indecent, and were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's Calisto, 1675, in the last Stuart court Masque.
Chaloner Smith 7, ii of iv. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7833] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Carolus II.dus D:G: Ang: Sco: Fra: et Hib: Rex Fidei Defensor. &c.
G. Kneller pinx: [R. Williams fecit:]
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel-Street Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1685.]
Mezzotint. Plate 336 x 247mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Charles II, half length in an oval, wearing wig, lace cravat, robes, sash, chain and George. King Charles II (1630-1685), reigned from 1660 to 1685 after he claimed the throne following the execution of his father, however he wasn't crowned until after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. CS: 11, iii.
[Ref: 25410] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller pinx: [R. Williams fecit:]
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel-Street Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1685.]
Mezzotint. Plate 336 x 247mm. 13¼ x 9¾". Trimmed to plate.
Portrait of Charles II, half length in an oval, wearing wig, lace cravat, robes, sash, chain and George. King Charles II (1630-1685), reigned from 1660 to 1685 after he claimed the throne following the execution of his father, however he wasn't crowned until after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. CS: 11, iii.
[Ref: 25410] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Carolus II.dus D:G: Ang: Sco: Fra: et Hib: Rex Fidei Defensor. &c.
G. Kneller pinx: R. Williams fecit:
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel-Street Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1685.]
Mezzotint, sheet 336 x 247mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate; tipped into album sheet.
Charles II (1630-1685), king of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1660 to 1685. Following the execution of his father Charles I, he was forced into exile but returned with the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 (as alluded to be the vignette below his coat of arms, showing his triumphant return to London). One of many engravings of Charles II after Sir Godfrey Kneller. Following the death of Sir Peter Lely in 1680, Kneller became the undoubted favourite court painter of the king. After Charles II died in 1685, Kneller easily fought of competition from William Wissing and John Riley to maintain his position under the new king, James II.
CS 11; for earlier state see ref. 25410
[Ref: 42908] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G. Kneller pinx: R. Williams fecit:
Sold by I. Smith at ye Lyon & Crown in Russel-Street Covent-Garden. [n.d. c.1685.]
Mezzotint, sheet 336 x 247mm (13¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to plate; tipped into album sheet.
Charles II (1630-1685), king of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1660 to 1685. Following the execution of his father Charles I, he was forced into exile but returned with the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 (as alluded to be the vignette below his coat of arms, showing his triumphant return to London). One of many engravings of Charles II after Sir Godfrey Kneller. Following the death of Sir Peter Lely in 1680, Kneller became the undoubted favourite court painter of the king. After Charles II died in 1685, Kneller easily fought of competition from William Wissing and John Riley to maintain his position under the new king, James II.
CS 11; for earlier state see ref. 25410
[Ref: 42908] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)