[Extracted from a painting by Louis Francois Gerard van der Puyl.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Steel engraving on chine collé. 305 x 205mm (12 x 8), with very large margins. Chine collé lifting from backing sheet.
A half-length portrait of publisher and bookseller Thomas Payne, who ran a shop at Mews Gate in Castle Street near Leicester Fields (the site of the National Gallery), which became a meeting place for the literati of the day. The original painting, by Dutchman Louis François Gérard van der Puyl (1750-1824), shows Payne in his shop, surrounded by a group of people (including the painter). Payne is playing whist but, in this extract, his hand of cards has been replaced by a book!
The painting is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (accession 1951-125-17).
[Ref: 64402]  £95.00