Author: Prud'homme, John Francis Eugene, 1800-1892, engraver after Archibald Robertson, 1765-1835
Title: Portrait of Alexander Hamilton First Edition of the Engraving
Description: Washington, DC: 1834. Stipple engraving . 6 x 3.5 inches image size. Margins. Matted. J Archibald Robertson (1765-1835) was born in Scotland, and studied in London with the celebrated painters Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West. He emigrated to New York in the early 1790s, and became not only successful artistically as a painter of miniatures, but also socially, traveling in the best circles of Federalist New York City society. He knew Alexander Hamilton so well that he named his second son in Hamilton’s honor. Around this time he painted a miniature portrait of Hamilton that is now lost; it was engraved, in 1834 by J.F.E. Prud’homme for the weighty collective biography National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. However, after Hamilton’s death, Robertson made a second version of the miniature portrait that featured a 3/4 view of Hamilton, surrounded by law books, pamphlets, and scrolls to represent his various achievements. As a nod to his military career, his uniform hat, sword, and Cincinnati medal are (somewhat incongruously) on the shelf behind him. This version was engraved and sold as a popular, posthumous print of Hamilton, right, by William Rollinson.. Provenance: W. Bruce Fye. .
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Title: Portrait of Alexander Hamilton First Edition of the Engraving
Description: Washington, DC: 1834. Stipple engraving . 6 x 3.5 inches image size. Margins. Matted. J Archibald Robertson (1765-1835) was born in Scotland, and studied in London with the celebrated painters Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West. He emigrated to New York in the early 1790s, and became not only successful artistically as a painter of miniatures, but also socially, traveling in the best circles of Federalist New York City society. He knew Alexander Hamilton so well that he named his second son in Hamilton’s honor. Around this time he painted a miniature portrait of Hamilton that is now lost; it was engraved, in 1834 by J.F.E. Prud’homme for the weighty collective biography National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. However, after Hamilton’s death, Robertson made a second version of the miniature portrait that featured a 3/4 view of Hamilton, surrounded by law books, pamphlets, and scrolls to represent his various achievements. As a nod to his military career, his uniform hat, sword, and Cincinnati medal are (somewhat incongruously) on the shelf behind him. This version was engraved and sold as a popular, posthumous print of Hamilton, right, by William Rollinson.. Provenance: W. Bruce Fye. .
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Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-4106
- Book number: 51-4106
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