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[Owen Swiny] Owen M,,cSwiny Esq,,r.
Vanllo Pinx,,t. J,,Faber fecit 1752.
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Narrow margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv.
[Ref: 67516] £320.00
Price 2 Shilling Sold at the Golden Head near the Church Bloomsbury Square.
Mezzotint, fine impression. 355 x 255mm (14 x 10"). Narrow margins.
A three-quarter seated portrait of Irish theatre impresario Owen Swiny (1676-1754, also McSwiny, Swiney, MacSwiny or MacSwinny), bearded, wearing velvet trousers and jacket with lace cuffs, holding a book in his lap. He worked at the Drury Lane Theatre until 1709, leaving England in 1713 after being made bankrupt. He settled in Venice, where he signed opera talent and works for the London stage and commissioning works from Italian artists for collectors back in England. He returned to England about 1733, when he was made Storekeeper of His Majesty's Stables in Ordinary, a post which included a residence in the King's Mews (now site of the National Gallery).
CS 231, i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd, his state iii of iv.
[Ref: 67516] £320.00