
Lot 48
Thomas Tompion Print portrait
16 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold 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)
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.