Portrait of Enoch Seeman the younger
Date
1727
Sitter
Enoch Seeman (1689 - 1745, English) , Painter
Creator
John Faber (1694 - 1756, Dutch) , Engraver
After
Enoch Seeman (1689 - 1745, English) , Painter
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Material
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Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 140mm
width (print): 140mm
Subject
Description
Three-quarter length portrait of Enoch Seeman, body turned to the right [as viewed], facing a sketch book and holding a pen, looking back over to the left, depicted in the act of capturing a likeness. From a self-portrait by Seeman.
Inscribed below: ‘I Faber fecit 1727
Enoch Seeman Junior PICTOR
Se ipse pinxit AETat: 19
Sold by Faber at the Green Door in the Great Piazza Covent Garden’
Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694-1745), German painter, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Inscribed below: ‘I Faber fecit 1727
Enoch Seeman Junior PICTOR
Se ipse pinxit AETat: 19
Sold by Faber at the Green Door in the Great Piazza Covent Garden’
Engraving from MS/648/5 Collectanea Newtoniana. A collection of prints and original artworks relating to Sir Isaac Newton, compiled and arranged by Charles Turnor, 1837.
Enoch Seeman the younger (c.1694-1745), German painter, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Object history
Charles Turnor presented his Collectanea Newtoniana. Being a selection of the most authentic engraved portraits of Sir Isaac Newton Knt., and other eminent Philosophers Mathematicians and Distinguished Men … to the Royal Society in 1837.
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