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![[M.r Thomas Weston.]](jpegs/55302.jpg)
[M.r Thomas Weston.]
[M. Dahl pinx. John Faber fecit 1723.]
[1726.]
Rare & scarce mezzotint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed into image on 4 sides, losing inscription area.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Weston (d.1728), astronomer, the frontispiece to 'A copy-book written for the use of the young-gentlemen at the Academy in Greenwich'. As an indentured assistant to Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, he helped Flamsteed draught his celestial atlas, the 'Atlas Coelestis'. He is depicted with Flamsteed in the mural on the ceiling of the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He founded Weston's Academy in Greenwich in 1712, to give maritime training to pupils including orphans from the Royal Hospital. After several changes of name and location, Weston's Academy became the Burney's [Royal] Academy at Coldharbour, Gosport.
W. 3165; C.S. 379.
[Ref: 55302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[M. Dahl pinx. John Faber fecit 1723.]
[1726.]
Rare & scarce mezzotint. Sheet 270 x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Trimmed into image on 4 sides, losing inscription area.
Three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Weston (d.1728), astronomer, the frontispiece to 'A copy-book written for the use of the young-gentlemen at the Academy in Greenwich'. As an indentured assistant to Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, he helped Flamsteed draught his celestial atlas, the 'Atlas Coelestis'. He is depicted with Flamsteed in the mural on the ceiling of the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He founded Weston's Academy in Greenwich in 1712, to give maritime training to pupils including orphans from the Royal Hospital. After several changes of name and location, Weston's Academy became the Burney's [Royal] Academy at Coldharbour, Gosport.
W. 3165; C.S. 379.
[Ref: 55302] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
His Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland &c. Born, April 1721 and Died, Oct.r 1765, Aged 45.
D.M. Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1753.
Mezzotint, print 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Scuffed on the right side, crease in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), in an oval. Looking towards the viewer, wearing his armour with a sash diagonally from the left shoulder. Prince William Augustus was the third son of King George II. He was known as 'butcher Cumberland' for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.
CS 105.II. State with 'Cumberland' printed in a different script.
[Ref: 58876] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
D.M. Pinx.t. J. Faber Fecit 1753.
Mezzotint, print 325 x 225mm (12¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed and glued to album sheet. Scuffed on the right side, crease in inscription area.
Half-length portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), in an oval. Looking towards the viewer, wearing his armour with a sash diagonally from the left shoulder. Prince William Augustus was the third son of King George II. He was known as 'butcher Cumberland' for his harsh suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.
CS 105.II. State with 'Cumberland' printed in a different script.
[Ref: 58876] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
His Royal Highness William Augustus Duke of Cumberland, &c, &c, &c.
I. Faber ad Vivum Delint. et Fecit.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10". A fine impression with full margins.
Handsome portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721 - 1765) as a boy; facing and looking towards front, left hand on hip, right hand tucked inside his coat, smiling at the viewer. He wears a wig with a bow at the nape, a sash hanging diagonally from the left shoulder and a star on his breast; cocked hat on a table in front of him, and a statue of a classical warrior in a landscape in the left background. Third son of George II and a life-long soldier, the Duke was described by Horace Walpole as 'proud and unforgiving, fond of war for its own sake'. His victory at Culloden in 1746 ended the Jacobite threat, but his severe treatment of the rebels earned him the nickname 'Butcher Cumberland'. By John Faber the Younger (c.1695 - 1756).
Chaloner Smith: 99.
[Ref: 18323] £320.00
I. Faber ad Vivum Delint. et Fecit.
Sold by I. Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, 350 x 255mm. 13¾ x 10". A fine impression with full margins.
Handsome portrait of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721 - 1765) as a boy; facing and looking towards front, left hand on hip, right hand tucked inside his coat, smiling at the viewer. He wears a wig with a bow at the nape, a sash hanging diagonally from the left shoulder and a star on his breast; cocked hat on a table in front of him, and a statue of a classical warrior in a landscape in the left background. Third son of George II and a life-long soldier, the Duke was described by Horace Walpole as 'proud and unforgiving, fond of war for its own sake'. His victory at Culloden in 1746 ended the Jacobite threat, but his severe treatment of the rebels earned him the nickname 'Butcher Cumberland'. By John Faber the Younger (c.1695 - 1756).
Chaloner Smith: 99.
[Ref: 18323] £320.00
In Memory of our late Glorious Deliverer King William III This Plate (of the City and Castle of Namur, taken 1695) is most Humbly Dedicated to the Superior, Wardens, and the Rest of the Members of the Loyal and Friendly Society. of the Blue and Orange. By a Member and their most Obliged Humble Servant John Faber. Done from the Original Painting once King William's now in the Hands of the Bishop of Kildare. ~ 1743.
John Wyck Pinx.t. J.Faber fecit, 1743.
Mezzotint. 355 x 510mm. Laid on board.
CS 387, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6758] £650.00
John Wyck Pinx.t. J.Faber fecit, 1743.
Mezzotint. 355 x 510mm. Laid on board.
CS 387, ii of ii. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 6758] £650.00
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His Highness William Prince of Orange & Nassau, &c, &c, &c Done from the Original Painting w.ch His Highness Presented to y.e Right Hon.ble Philip Earl of Chesterfield, &c. To whom this plate is most Humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most Obedient Sersant John Faber.
P. van Dijk pinx 1732. I. Faber fecit 1733.
[n.d. c.1733]
Mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. 'Sersant' mistake seems to have been corrected in ink (?).
Half-length portrait of William IV (1711-1751) in an oval frame with his arms thrown out, head turned to right and glanced towards the viewer, wearing a dark coat with decoration at the cuffs, neck and waist, breastplate and long curls.
CS 269.
[Ref: 58800] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
P. van Dijk pinx 1732. I. Faber fecit 1733.
[n.d. c.1733]
Mezzotint, print 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet. 'Sersant' mistake seems to have been corrected in ink (?).
Half-length portrait of William IV (1711-1751) in an oval frame with his arms thrown out, head turned to right and glanced towards the viewer, wearing a dark coat with decoration at the cuffs, neck and waist, breastplate and long curls.
CS 269.
[Ref: 58800] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)
Their Serene & Royal Highnesses William & Ann Prince & Princess of Orange & Nassau &c. &c. &c. Done from ye Original Painting which their Highnesses presented to ye Right Honble Algernon Seymour Earl of Hartford &c. To whom this PLATE is most humbly Dedicated by his Lordships most obedient servant John Faber.
Philip van dyk pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1734.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 355 x 425mm Cut to image on 3 sides. Repaired tear.
A double portrait of William IV, Prince of Orange and Nassau (1711 - 1751) and Anne, Princess Royal (1709 - 1759), three-quarter length, within a lavish architectural setting, with a curtain behind. The princess is seated to front at left, with the prince standing beside her on the right, looking to her, with dog at the bottom right.
CS: 267. Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35767] £360.00
Philip van dyk pinx.t. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1734.]
Mezzotint. Sheet size: 355 x 425mm Cut to image on 3 sides. Repaired tear.
A double portrait of William IV, Prince of Orange and Nassau (1711 - 1751) and Anne, Princess Royal (1709 - 1759), three-quarter length, within a lavish architectural setting, with a curtain behind. The princess is seated to front at left, with the prince standing beside her on the right, looking to her, with dog at the bottom right.
CS: 267. Ex: Collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 35767] £360.00
![[Catherine Winstanley.]](jpegs/51810.jpg)
[Catherine Winstanley.]
Hamlet Winstanley Pinxit. I. Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, & Jn.o Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"), with wide margins.
A portrait of Mrs. Catherine Winstanley, seated in a landscape, a sketchbook open on her lap. It was published as a pair to a self-portrait of her husband, the painter Hamlet Winstanley, whose monogram 'HW' is inscribed below the image.
CS 389, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 51810] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Hamlet Winstanley Pinxit. I. Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho.s Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, & Jn.o Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1750.]
Mezzotint. 375 x 255mm (14¾ x 10"), with wide margins.
A portrait of Mrs. Catherine Winstanley, seated in a landscape, a sketchbook open on her lap. It was published as a pair to a self-portrait of her husband, the painter Hamlet Winstanley, whose monogram 'HW' is inscribed below the image.
CS 389, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 51810] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. William Wollaston. Done after the Marble Bust, in Her Majesty's Hermitage in the Royal Garden at Richmond.
I.Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St.Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse, Cornhil. [n.d. c.1750]
Mezzotint. 362 x 257mm.
William Wollaston born March 26, 1659, Coton Clanford, Staffordshire, Eng. died Oct. 29, 1724, London. British Rationalist philosopher and moralist whose ethical doctrines influenced subsequent philosophy as well as that of his own time. After studies at the University of Cambridge, Wollaston became a schoolteacher in Birmingham (1682) and soon afterward was ordained a priest. In 1730 Queen Caroline commissioned a garden Hermitage with a series of marble busts by the English sculptor Michael Rysbrack to celebrate scientists and thinkers like Newton, Boyle, , Locke and the clergymen Samuel Clarke and William Wollaston.
CS: 125.
[Ref: 2368] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
I.Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St.Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse, Cornhil. [n.d. c.1750]
Mezzotint. 362 x 257mm.
William Wollaston born March 26, 1659, Coton Clanford, Staffordshire, Eng. died Oct. 29, 1724, London. British Rationalist philosopher and moralist whose ethical doctrines influenced subsequent philosophy as well as that of his own time. After studies at the University of Cambridge, Wollaston became a schoolteacher in Birmingham (1682) and soon afterward was ordained a priest. In 1730 Queen Caroline commissioned a garden Hermitage with a series of marble busts by the English sculptor Michael Rysbrack to celebrate scientists and thinkers like Newton, Boyle, , Locke and the clergymen Samuel Clarke and William Wollaston.
CS: 125.
[Ref: 2368] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Mr. William Wollaston. Done after the Marble Bust, in Her Majesty's Hermitage in the Royal Garden at Richmond.
I.Faber fecit.
Printed for Ca: Bowles in St.Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 362 x 257mm (14¼ x 10").
William Wollaston (1659-1724), moral philosopher. After studies at the University of Cambridge, Wollaston became a schoolteacher in Birmingham (1682) and soon afterward was ordained a priest. His major work was 'The Religion of Nature Delineated' (1724). In 1730 Queen Caroline commissioned a garden Hermitage with a series of marble busts by the English sculptor Michael Rysbrack to celebrate scientists and thinkers. These were engraved and issued as a set of five 'philosophers of England' (Wollaston, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, John Locke and Samuel Clarke) with a view of the Hermitage prefixed.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 125 iii/iii; for an earlier impression of this print see ref. 2368; for the bust of Locke see ref. 32333.
[Ref: 34116] £320.00
I.Faber fecit.
Printed for Ca: Bowles in St.Pauls Church Yard, London.
Mezzotint with very large margins, platemark 362 x 257mm (14¼ x 10").
William Wollaston (1659-1724), moral philosopher. After studies at the University of Cambridge, Wollaston became a schoolteacher in Birmingham (1682) and soon afterward was ordained a priest. His major work was 'The Religion of Nature Delineated' (1724). In 1730 Queen Caroline commissioned a garden Hermitage with a series of marble busts by the English sculptor Michael Rysbrack to celebrate scientists and thinkers. These were engraved and issued as a set of five 'philosophers of England' (Wollaston, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, John Locke and Samuel Clarke) with a view of the Hermitage prefixed.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; CS 125 iii/iii; for an earlier impression of this print see ref. 2368; for the bust of Locke see ref. 32333.
[Ref: 34116] £320.00
Mr. William Wollaston. Done after the Marble Bust, in Her Majesty's Hermitage in the Royal Garden at Richmond.
I. Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles at the black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1745.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10''), 18th century watermark, with large margins.
A portrait of philosophical writer William Wollaston (1659-1724) who wrote 'The Religion of Nature Delineated' 1722. From the series 'Philosophers of England'.
CS 121.I.
[Ref: 50385] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
I. Faber fecit.
Printed for Tho: Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, & John Bowles at the black Horse in Cornhill. [n.d., c.1745.]
Mezzotint. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10''), 18th century watermark, with large margins.
A portrait of philosophical writer William Wollaston (1659-1724) who wrote 'The Religion of Nature Delineated' 1722. From the series 'Philosophers of England'.
CS 121.I.
[Ref: 50385] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Thomas Wolseius Card: & Archiep: Eborac: &c. Fundr Coll. Aedis Christi. A.D. 1525. Rev.do Vino Guilielm. Markham, L.L. Detistius Collegii Custodi, summa cum Humil. & Observan, D.D.D. H. Parker.
[n.d. c.1750.]
Mezzotint with small margins. Plate 260 x 202mm (10¼ x 8"). Laid on conservation paper.
Portrait of Cardinal Wolsey, three-quarter length, standing, holding a scroll; curtain and branch of a tree in background; coat of arms in lower margin. One of a series of forty-five plates of portraits of the founders of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (c.17435-1530) the English political figure and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was made the King's almoner when Henry VIII took the throne in 1509. He gained a lot of power and freedom and was often depicted as an alter rex.
CS: 34, iv.
[Ref: 28679] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1750.]
Mezzotint with small margins. Plate 260 x 202mm (10¼ x 8"). Laid on conservation paper.
Portrait of Cardinal Wolsey, three-quarter length, standing, holding a scroll; curtain and branch of a tree in background; coat of arms in lower margin. One of a series of forty-five plates of portraits of the founders of Oxford and Cambridge colleges, Royal Exchange, and Charterhouse. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (c.17435-1530) the English political figure and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was made the King's almoner when Henry VIII took the throne in 1509. He gained a lot of power and freedom and was often depicted as an alter rex.
CS: 34, iv.
[Ref: 28679] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Madam Wright
John Vanderbank pinx.t 1729. J. Faber Fec.t
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet; repair top left.
Portrait of an unidentified sitter, after John Vanderbank (1694-1739), painter and draughtsman whose sitters included Sir Isaac Newton, the sculptor John Michael Rysbrac, and the poet James Thomson.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; O'D 1 (only likeness); CS 396. For Vanderbank's portraits of Newton and Rysbrac see refs. 33218 and 27207.
[Ref: 36692] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
John Vanderbank pinx.t 1729. J. Faber Fec.t
Mezzotint, sheet 350 x 250mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet; repair top left.
Portrait of an unidentified sitter, after John Vanderbank (1694-1739), painter and draughtsman whose sitters included Sir Isaac Newton, the sculptor John Michael Rysbrac, and the poet James Thomson.
Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd; O'D 1 (only likeness); CS 396. For Vanderbank's portraits of Newton and Rysbrac see refs. 33218 and 27207.
[Ref: 36692] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Jan Wyck] Optimi Ingenÿ Viro Joanni Wootton, Joannis Wyck insignis Præliorum Pictoris](jpegs/60716.jpg)
[Jan Wyck] Optimi Ingenÿ Viro Joanni Wootton, Joannis Wyck insignis Præliorum Pictoris quondam Discipulp hanc Magistri Effifiem 29. Octobris 1652 Natus est Obÿt 1700. D.D.D. Faber.
G: Kneller pinx: 1685. J. Faber fecit 1730.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾").
Half-length portrait of painter Jan Wyck (1645-1702), born in Haarlem but probably living in London from the age of twelve. He received patronage from the Dukes of Ormond and Monmouth, as well as William III. Among his military subjects were several paintings of the Battle of the Boyne. He died in Mortlake.
CS 397.
[Ref: 60716] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
G: Kneller pinx: 1685. J. Faber fecit 1730.
Mezzotint. 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾").
Half-length portrait of painter Jan Wyck (1645-1702), born in Haarlem but probably living in London from the age of twelve. He received patronage from the Dukes of Ormond and Monmouth, as well as William III. Among his military subjects were several paintings of the Battle of the Boyne. He died in Mortlake.
CS 397.
[Ref: 60716] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Christian Frederick Zincke Painter in Enamel & Elizabeth his Wife.
H. Hysing pinx. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1720]
Mezzotint. 310 x 360mm (12¼ x 14¼"). Thread margins.
Christian Frederick Zincke (1684?-1767), miniature painter born in Dresden but arriving in London c.1706. This double portrait shows him with his first wife Elizabeth, whom he married at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London in 1718. Zincke had a successful career, benefitting from his relationships with George II and Frederick, Prince of Wales.
CS: 402.
[Ref: 56393] £320.00
H. Hysing pinx. J. Faber fecit.
[n.d., c.1720]
Mezzotint. 310 x 360mm (12¼ x 14¼"). Thread margins.
Christian Frederick Zincke (1684?-1767), miniature painter born in Dresden but arriving in London c.1706. This double portrait shows him with his first wife Elizabeth, whom he married at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London in 1718. Zincke had a successful career, benefitting from his relationships with George II and Frederick, Prince of Wales.
CS: 402.
[Ref: 56393] £320.00