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Lot 48

Thomas Tompion Print portrait

16 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,211.25 inc. premium

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Thomas Tompion portrait

Thomas Tompion Automatopaeus
Mezzotint by John Smith after Godfrey Kneller, 1697, half length with three quarter turn holding a watch movement in his left hand, within a patterned oval border, titled below.(unframed)

Dimensions. Height: 34cms/13.5ins Width: 25cms/10ins. (1)

Footnotes

Similar examples were sold in these rooms:
Fine Clocks, 6 July 2016, lot 106; Fine Clocks, 16 December 2015, lot 159; Fine Clocks, 20 June 2012, lot 75.

Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) was the foremost portrait painter in England and court painter for Charles II to George II.
John Smith (1652-1743) was a popular and independent print maker who worked closely with Kneller.

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