The Honble. Thomas Wentworth Esqr

by Allan Ramsay, Alexander Van Haecken

$450 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine quality mezzotint portrait of Thomas Wentworth, Commander in Chief of the British forces in America. An excellent image by Alexander Van Haecken, younger brother of Joseph Van Haecken Van Aken who worked for some time as Ramsay's studio assistant, specialising in drapery. Ramsay, son of the poet of the same name, achieved a great level of success as a portrait painter, but after his appointment in 1767 as portrait painter to the King, he became, for a while, the most

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