William Dickinson
Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
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March 24, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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William Dickinson
1747 - 1823
after Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
mezzotint by W. Dickinson, trimmed to plate mark, framed and glazed
visible sheet 52 by 36.5cm.
Published in 1774.
Inventory, 1926, in the Banks Room, p. 11;
c.f. John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1878–83, vol. I, p. 173, no. 4.:
Edward Hamilton A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1884, p. 4;
Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, London, 1908–22, vol. I, p. 113, no. 14.
c.f. John Chaloner Smith, British Mezzotinto Portraits, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1878–83, vol. I, p. 173, no. 4.:
Edward Hamilton A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1884, p. 4;
Freeman O'Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, London, 1908–22, vol. I, p. 113, no. 14.
The original of this portrait was painted by Reynolds in 1771 shortly after Banks had returned from Cook's first voyage to the South Pacific. The picture was inherited by Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt., the sitter's nephew, and remained in the family till 1918 when it was sold to Lord Cowdray and in 1986 it passed from that collection to the National Portrait Gallery.