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[Thomas Hobbes]
[George Perfect Harding, c.1802]
Watercolour and wash, 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Tipped into album sheet with hand-drawn border.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), philosopher. Hobbes wrote extensively on history, geometry and politics. His major work, 'Leviathan' (1651), was an important influence on the tradition of utilitarian political thinking. He was the friend of Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson and William Harvey, and tutor of Charles II, who later granted him a pension, but his reputation as an atheist gained him many opponents within the church and government. Watercolour probably based on the portrait by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, by George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), miniature painter. Harding devoted himself to producing minute copies in watercolour of works of historical and antiquarian interest. Examples of his work are in several major British institutions.
For Pierre's portrait of Hobbes see ref. 22212.
[Ref: 42316] £480.00
Watercolour and wash, 210 x 160mm (8¼ x 6¼"). Tipped into album sheet with hand-drawn border.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), philosopher. Hobbes wrote extensively on history, geometry and politics. His major work, 'Leviathan' (1651), was an important influence on the tradition of utilitarian political thinking. He was the friend of Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson and William Harvey, and tutor of Charles II, who later granted him a pension, but his reputation as an atheist gained him many opponents within the church and government. Watercolour probably based on the portrait by Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre, by George Perfect Harding (1779/80-1853), miniature painter. Harding devoted himself to producing minute copies in watercolour of works of historical and antiquarian interest. Examples of his work are in several major British institutions.
For Pierre's portrait of Hobbes see ref. 22212.
[Ref: 42316] £480.00