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The industry and ingenuity of William Ince and John Mayhew
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 996-1001
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Author:
Wood, Lucy (Wood, Lucy)
Subjects
artists:
Ince, William / Mayhew, John / Chippendale, Thomas I, 1718-1779
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1789 / 1780-1829
subjects:
Furniture makers / British architecture / Cabinetmakers / Marquetry / Beds (furniture) / Chairs / Tapestries
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Bed, by Ince and Mayhew. 1768. Mahogany and other woods, with original blue silk ‘flowered tabby’ in the ‘Large Antique Headboard’, tester and cornice, height 356 cm. (The Burghley House Collection, Stamford).
Attributed works:
2. Commode, by Ince and Mayhew, designed by Robert Adam. 1775. Veneered in harewood, tulipwood, satinwood and other woods, with painted decoration and ormolu mounts, 93 by 137 by 53.5 cm. (The Derby Collection).
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3. Commode (one of a pair and ensuite with a pair of corner cupboards), by Ince and Mayhew. 1767. Reworked seventeenth-century marquetry with ormolu mounts, 98 by 10 by 72 cm. (The Burghley House Collection, Stamford).
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4. Commode, by Ince and Mayhew. 1765. Veneered in yew, holly and marquetry, with ebonised mouldings and ormolu mounts, 82 by 136 by 58 cm. (Private collection; Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
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5. Detail of a commode (one of a pair) by Ince and Mayhew, showing a shaded and engraved husk festoon in ‘yellow wood’ inlaid on a mahogany ground, passing over and under a frieze moulding and a chequered line border. 1767. (The Burghley House Collection, Stamford).
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6. Boulle cabinet, on a table stand by Ince and Mayhew. Cabinet early eighteenth century, attributed to André-Charles Boulle; stand c.1780. Cabinet veneered in tortoiseshell and horn, inlaid with brass, with ormolu mounts; stand giltwood; overall height 209 cm., height of stand 94 cm. (The Buccleuch Collections, Boughton, Northamptonshire; by kind permission of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KT).
Attributed works:
7. Two armchairs decorated with profiles of George III and Queen Charlotte, probably part of an original set of ten, supplied by Ince and Mayhew to Warren Hastings. c.1790. Painted wood, approx. 93 by 53.5 by 60 cm. (The Harrowby Collection).
Exhibition Review
True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780–1870
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 298-300
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Reviewer:
Olsson, Carl-Johan (Olsson, Carl-Johan)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
dates:
1780-1829 / 1830-1859 / 1860-1869
museums and institutions:
Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris, France
subjects:
Plein-air oil-sketches / Studies (visual works) / Landscapes (visual works)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780–1870 Fondation Custodia, Paris 3rd December 2021–3rd April 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. The oak and the reed, by Achille Etna Michallon. 1816. Oil on canvas, 43.5 by 53.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; exh. Fondation Custodia, Paris).
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19. Olive trees near Tivoli, by Janus La Cour. 1869. Oil on canvas, 37.4 by 60.5 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
Attributed works:
20. Landscape in the Haute- Savoie, with an artist working in the open air, by Vilhelm Kyhn. 1850. Oil on paper, 42 by 33.3 cm. (Private collection; exh. Fondation Custodia, Paris).
Article
‘I stole his likeness’: an unknown drawing of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 222-224
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Author:
Clingham, Greg (Clingham, Greg)
Subjects
art literature:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 / Boswell, James
artists:
Lindsay (Barnard), Anne , Lady / Opie, John / Reynolds, Joshua
dates:
1780-1829
media:
Drawings
subjects:
Portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Samuel Johnson, by John Opie. 1783–84. Canvas, 76.5 by 64 cm. (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA).
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2. James Boswell, by Joshua Reynolds. 1785. Canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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3. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, by Lady Anne Barnard. c.1810. Pencil and watercolour on paper, drawing 42 by 20 cm. (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Archives and Manuscript Collection, Lady Anne Barnard, Acc 9769, Personal Papers, 27/4/13, II, fol.210).
Book Review
British Travellers in Spain, 1766–1849 (the seventy-seventh volume of The Walpole Society). Edited by Hugh Brigstocke
05/2017 | 1370 | 159
Pages: 402-403
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Reviewer:
Brooke, Xanthe (Brooke, Xanthe)
Subjects
art literature:
Walpole Society
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1829 / 1830-1849
places:
Spain
subjects:
Travel accounts / Collectors / British / Spanish painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
44. The Christ Child asleep on the Cross, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. c.1665-1680 (British Museum, London)
Book Review
George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City. By Julia King
05/2017 | 1370 | 159
Pages: 403
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Reviewer:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Hadfield, George
dates:
1770-1779 / 1780-1829
subjects:
British architecture / American architecture (United States of America) / Neo-classicism / Biographies / Commissions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
45. The Van Ness Mausoleum, designed by George Hadfield. Oak Hill Cemetery, Washingto DC. 1825-26 (Photograph Library of Congress, Washington)
Publication Received
Apprendre à peindre. Les ateliers privés à Paris 1780–1863. Edited by France Nerlich and Alain Bonnet.
04/2015 | 1345 | 157
Pages: 277
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Reviewer:
Duffy, Stephen (Duffy, Stephen)
Subjects
dates:
1780-1829 / 1830-1849 / 1850-1869
places:
Paris / France
subjects:
Art education / Studios (organisations) / French
Book Review
Thomas Bewick. The Complete Illustrative Work
12/2012 | 1317 | 154
Pages: 856
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Reviewer:
Postle, Martin (Postle, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Bewick, Thomas
dates:
1760-1769 / 1770-1779 / 1780-1829
museums and institutions:
British Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Prints / Wood engravings / Engravings / Engraver's proofs / Published illustrations / Book illustrations / Biographies / Collections, Public / Gifts
subjects:
British
Publication Received
Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789–1914
10/2012 | 1315 | 154
Pages: 721
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Reviewer:
Waterfield, Giles (Waterfield, Giles)
Subjects
dates:
1780-1829 / 1830-1909 / 1910-1919
places:
France
subjects:
Portraits / Essays / French / Gender studies / Social history / French (people)
Article
A new catalogue of Friedrich’s drawings and watercolours
02/2012 | 1307 | 154
Pages: 107-111
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Friedrich, Caspar David
dates:
1780-1829 / 1830-1849
print:
Friedrich, Caspar David
subjects:
Drawings / Watercolours / German / Catalogues raisonnés
subjects:
Sketchbooks / Provenance
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Caspar David Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen. Das gesamte Werk | author: Grummt, Christina
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. View of the Feldstein near Rathen, by Caspar David Friedrich. c.1828. Watercolour with pen and ink over pencil on wove paper, 26.4 by 23.1 cm. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg).
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23. Tree studies, by Caspar David Friedrich. From the Loseblattsammlung of 1809. April/June 1809. Pencil on wove paper, 36 by 26 cm. (Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo).
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24. A moonlit landscape with lovers and a church, by Caspar David Friedrich. c.1797–98. Pen and dark brown ink with brown, grey and blue washes, heightened with white and touched with yellow and pink chalks over graphite, 8.9 by 12.7 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
25. Tree studies, by Caspar David Friedrich. From the Loseblattsammlung of 1809. June 1819. Pencil on wove paper, 35.8 by 25.7 cm. (Kunsthalle, Bremen).
Article
New portraits of Thomas Jenkins, James Byres and Gavin Hamilton
10/2011 | 1303 | 153
Pages: 661-664
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Author:
Cesareo, Antonello (Cesareo, Antonello)
Subjects
artists:
Maron, Anton von
artists:
Byres, James / Hamilton, Gavin
artists:
Jenkins, Thomas
dates:
1770-1779 / 1780-1829
museums and institutions:
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy
print:
Maron, Anton von
subjects:
Portraits / Austrian painting / Collections, Private / Collections, Public
subjects:
Artists / Painters
subjects:
Commissions / Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy / Academies
subjects:
Half-length portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Portrait of Thomas Jenkins, by Anton von Maron. After 1793. Canvas, 66 by 50 cm. (Accademia di S. Luca, Rome).
Attributed works:
24. Portrait of Thomas Jenkins, by Anton von Maron. c.1770. Canvas, dimensions unknown. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
25. Portrait of James Byres, by Charles Heathcote Tatham. 1794. Pencil on paper, dimensions unknown. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
26. Portrait of James Byres, by Anton von Maron. 1793. Canvas, 66 by 50 cm. (Accademia di S. Luca, Rome).
Attributed works:
27. Self-portrait, by Gavin Hamilton. 1745–50. Canvas, 71 by 59 cm. (Casa Canova, Possagno).
Attributed works:
28. Portrait of Gavin Hamilton, by Christ­opher Hewetson. 1783–84. Marble, 58 cm. high. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille).
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