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Portraits of Celebrated Painters with Medallions from Their Best Performances

1825
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  • Title: Portraits of Celebrated Painters with Medallions from Their Best Performances
  • Author: Written and illustrated by John M. Corner (British, active 1788–1825)
  • Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
  • Sitter: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)
  • Sitter: Nicolas Poussin (French, Les Andelys 1594–1665 Rome)
  • Sitter: Giorgione (Italian, Castelfranco Veneto 1477/78–1510 Venice)
  • Sitter: Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, Parma 1582–1647 Rome)
  • Sitter: Frans Snyders (Flemish, Antwerp 1579–1657 Antwerp)
  • Sitter: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)
  • Sitter: Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, Bologna 1581–1641 Naples)
  • Sitter: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome)
  • Sitter: Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis) (Italian, Pordenone 1483?–1539 Ferrara)
  • Sitter: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
  • Sitter: Carle (Charles André) Vanloo (French, Nice 1705–1765 Paris)
  • Sitter: Quentin Metsys (Netherlandish, Leuven 1466–1530 Antwerp)
  • Sitter: Adriaen van Stalbemt (Flemish, 1580–1662)
  • Sitter: Gerrit Dou (Dutch, Leiden 1613–1675 Leiden)
  • Sitter: Simon Vouet (French, Paris 1590–1649 Paris)
  • Sitter: Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619–1690 Paris)
  • Sitter: Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)
  • Sitter: Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)
  • Sitter: Giovanni Battista Mola (Italian, Coldrerio 1585–1665 Rome)
  • Sitter: Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
  • Sitter: Jan Both (Dutch, Utrecht ca. 1618–1652 Utrecht)
  • Sitter: Sir Godfrey Kneller (German, Lübeck 1646–1723 London)
  • Sitter: Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes) (British, Soest 1618–1680 London)
  • Sitter: Jacob Jordaens (Flemish, Antwerp 1593–1678 Antwerp)
  • Sitter: Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna)
  • Sitter: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)
  • Date: 1825
  • Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: 11 9/16 x 9 1/16 x 1/2 in. (29.3 x 23 x 1.2 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Betty Fiske, 1986
  • Object Number: 1986.1116
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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