![[Sir Henry Marten]](jpegs/42331.jpg)
[Sir Henry Marten]
[Silvester Harding]
Watercolour and wash, oval, 125 x 105mm (5 x 4"). Tipped into album sheet with hand-drawn border.
Sir Henry Marten (c.1561-1641), civil lawyer and judge. Despite growing concerns about the government of Charles I, Marten seems to have remained in good standing with the king. Watercolour, probably after a 1799 stipple by Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe, Watercolour by Silvester Harding (1745/51-1809), artist and publisher. After setting up a shop in Fleet Street with his brother Edward in 1786, Harding was chiefly employed in drawing portraits of theatrical celebrities, and in copying ancient portraits in watercolours, as here. The partnership was dissolved by 1798 (before this watercolour was made). Harding was known to, and esteemed by the collectors of his day, and many examples of his work are in the British Museum. His son George Perfect Harding also specialised in watercolour copies of early portraits.
[Ref: 42331] £320.00
Watercolour and wash, oval, 125 x 105mm (5 x 4"). Tipped into album sheet with hand-drawn border.
Sir Henry Marten (c.1561-1641), civil lawyer and judge. Despite growing concerns about the government of Charles I, Marten seems to have remained in good standing with the king. Watercolour, probably after a 1799 stipple by Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe, Watercolour by Silvester Harding (1745/51-1809), artist and publisher. After setting up a shop in Fleet Street with his brother Edward in 1786, Harding was chiefly employed in drawing portraits of theatrical celebrities, and in copying ancient portraits in watercolours, as here. The partnership was dissolved by 1798 (before this watercolour was made). Harding was known to, and esteemed by the collectors of his day, and many examples of his work are in the British Museum. His son George Perfect Harding also specialised in watercolour copies of early portraits.
[Ref: 42331] £320.00