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Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the intaglio ... in the late 17th century Abraham Bloteling was one of a number of Amsterdam printmakers to use ...
Godfrey Kneller, John Smith, 1696, Tate Britain, London. John Smith (c. 1652 – c. 1742) was an English mezzotint engraver and print seller. Closely associated with the portrait painter Godfrey Kneller, Smith was one of leading exponents of the mezzotint medium during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was regarded among first English-born artists to receive international recognition ...
Portrait of Amelie Elisabeth von Hessen, the first known mezzotint, by Ludwig von Siegen, 1642. Ludwig von Siegen (c. March 1609 Cologne – c. 1680 Wolfenbüttel, Germany) was a German soldier and amateur engraver, who invented the printmaking technique of mezzotint, a printing-process reliant on mechanical pressure used to print more complex engravings than previously possible.
Mezzotint printmaking originated in 17th century Europe and was distinguished for its incorporation of halftones in which gradations of light and shade produced forms instead of lines. [16] An example of intaglio , artists utilized mezzotint to reproduce images of oil on canvas paintings that could be distributed in mass copies.
Johann Theodor de Bry En (later in Germany, also publisher); Jan Van Calcar Wo; Hieronymus Cock En, Et, Publisher; Hans Collaert En, son of Adriaen; Cornelis Cort En; Philippe Galle En, Publisher, and his heirs, including Adriaen Collaert.
Queen Mary II of England wearing fontanges and a frelange, 1688 (mezzotint made 1690s) A fontange, or frelange, is a high headdress popular during the turn of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe.
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762 [2]) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures [3] and his early mezzotint engravings.
Hugh Howard was born in Dublin on 7 February 1675. [1] He was the eldest son of Ralph Howard of Shelton, county Wicklow.He came with his father to England in 1688, and showing a taste for painting joined in 1697 the suite of Thomas Herbert, eighth earl of Pembroke, one of the plenipotentiaries for the treaty of Ryswyck, on a journey through Holland to Italy.