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Lennox-Boyd i/i
Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Condition: Minor creases to sheet, large repaired tear to
the upper right hand corner, small repaired tears to
bottom margin.
[27582]
£120
Whitman - S.W. Reynolds 18, O’Donoghue 1, Lennox-
Boyd i/i
Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Condition: Tipped to album page. Two small spots of
foxing just below the publication line.
[27753]
£400
Foreign Political
48. Ionnes Ab Oldenbarnevelt Eques D. Berkeliae
Roderisae
Copper engraving
Claes Jansz. Visscher
c.1617
Image 150 x 118 mm, Plate 172 x 119 mm, Sheet 175 x
123 mm
unmounted
Inscription beneath image reads: Aetatis 70. A.1617./
Jan van Oldenbarnevelt, Ridder, Heer van Berkel
Rodenrys.
47. John Polexfen Bastard and Edmund Bastard Esq.
Members of Parliment
Mezzotint
Samuel William Reynolds after James Northcote
London Published June 12 1795, by S.W. Reynolds, No.
50, Poland Street.
Image 365 x 405 mm, Plate 408 x 405 mm, Sheet 436 x
528 mm
unmounted
John Pollexfen Bastard (1756 – 1816) was a British
Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East
Devonshire Militia. His younger brother Edmund
Bastard (1758-1816) was also a Tory and Member of
Parliament (MP) for Dartmouth from 1787 to 1812.
Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835) studied art in
London under Charles Howard Hodges and John
Raphael Smith. Reynolds began exhibiting at the Royal
Academy in 1797 and continued to show his work there
until 1827. His work was also greatly admired by the
French and was exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1810.
Reynolds was appointed portrait engraver to George III
in 1820, after which he produced a set of over 350 small
mezzotints after Sir Joshua Reynolds's portraits, issued
in four volumes between 1821 and 1826. His son,
Samuel William Reynolds, was also a portraitist.
James Northcote (1746-1831) was a history and portrait
painter, Northcote was also assistant to Sir Joshua
Reynolds, 1771-5, and later his biographer. He was
known for his dignified portraits in the Reynolds
tradition, but also produced grandiose history paintings,
many for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.
Johan van Oldenbarneveld (1547-1619) was Dutch
statesman and moderate Calvinist, who fought against
Spanish tyranny. He was a great supporter of William
the Silent, and served as a volunteer for the relief of
Haarlem in 1573 and Leiden in 1574. In 1576 he took
the post of pensionary of Rotterdam, an office which
carried official membership of the States of Holland. He
was active in promoting the Union of Utrecht (1579). In
1586 van Oldenbarneveld was appointed Land's
Advocate of Holland and promoted the idea of tolerance
of religious opinion (he supported the Remonstrants).
He refused to sanction the summoning of a purely
church synod of the counter-Remonstrants (1613). In
order to maintain peace, he raised a local force of 4000
men (waardgelders) and in August 1617 his strong
resolution (Scherpe resolutie) declared in principle
sovereign independence of the States of Holland from