Museum Object Number1965.2680 |
Print (Mezzotint)
Madam Jane Skeffington
Prints and Maps
Gift of Mrs. Waldron Phoenix Belknap
John Smith (Mezzotinter)
William Wissing (Painter)
John Bowles (Publisher)
Pupil of Isaac Beckett. Smith acquired both Beckett's business and inventory of plates around 1688. Smith's plates were sold at his death to John Boydell.John Bowles traded under his own name from c. 1724-1754 and 1764-1779. He trained his son Carington Bowles (1724-1792) and they traded together as John Bowles and Son from 1754 to 1764. John's brother Thomas Bowles (1712-1767) had a similar business in St. Paul's Churchyard, which Carington took over in 1764 when his uncle retired. Carington and John then began trading separately under their own names. Carington was succeeded by his son Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), who printed under the name Bowles & Carver (with Samuel Carver). John was succeeded by Robert Wilkinson. John Bowles, and later John Bowles and Son, used the inscription "at the Black Horse in Cornhill" until 1766, when fire damaged his shop. He relocated to No. 13 Cornhill by 1768.
1652/54c.1656c.1701
174216871779
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
1675-1687
1. Inscription; Lower center; I. Smith Fecit.
2. Inscription; Lower left; W. Wissing Pinxit.
3. Inscription; Lower right; Sold by J:Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill.
Portrait
Ink; Paper (laid)
Mezzotint
13.2 (H) , 9.9 (W) , 13.2 (Image H) , 9.9 (Image W)
33.6 (H) , 25.1 (W) , 13.2 (Image H) , 9.9 (Image W)
Trimmed within platemark.
Bowles, John
London, England, United Kingdom
III
None
State III, with Cooper's address erased, with Bowles' address added.
Text available soon.
[Book] Smith, John Chaloner. 1884 British Mezzotinto Portraits; Being a Descriptive Catalogue of These Engravings from the Introduction of the Art to the early part of the present century. 3. 941-1428.
• See p.1220-1221, no.231.