Mr. Thomas Betterton Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem.
G. Kneller. pinx: R: Williams fe:
E: Cooper Ex: [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Age toned.
Thomas Betterton (c. 1635 - 1710), actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I. Charles II sent Betterton to Paris to study improvements to stage craft, introducing shifting scenes rather than tapestry to the English theatre. He and his actress wife, Mary Saunderson, were regarded as respectable in a period when acting was seen as indecent, and were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's Calisto, 1675, in the last Stuart court Masque.
Chaloner Smith 7, ii of iv. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7833] £260.00
E: Cooper Ex: [n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint. 340 x 255mm (13½ x 10"). Age toned.
Thomas Betterton (c. 1635 - 1710), actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I. Charles II sent Betterton to Paris to study improvements to stage craft, introducing shifting scenes rather than tapestry to the English theatre. He and his actress wife, Mary Saunderson, were regarded as respectable in a period when acting was seen as indecent, and were invited to teach the children from noble and royal families to perform John Crowne's Calisto, 1675, in the last Stuart court Masque.
Chaloner Smith 7, ii of iv. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7833] £260.00