Bartholomew Dandridge (1691 – c. 1754) was an English portrait painter.
Life
editAccording to Horace Walpole, Dandridge was the son of a house-painter.[1] He studied at Sir Godfrey Kneller's academy of painting and later at the St Martin's Lane Academy. He had a career as a fashionable portrait painter in London for more than forty years,[2] working in a style similar to that of John Vanderbank.[3] In 1732, he was commissioned by Lord Barington to paint a portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales on horseback,[2] now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery but on loan to Spencer House.
In 1733, he moved to 55, Great Queen Street, which had formed part of the house of Sir Godfrey Kneller until his death two years before.[4] He played a part in the development of the conversation piece, making groups of model figures to judge effects of light and shade.[3]
His portraits of the historian Nathaniel Hooke and an unknown subject (believed to be William Kent) are also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[2] The collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum includes a Portrait of a Painter by Dandridge; this may be the self-portrait he is recorded as having painted in 1729, although the identification of the subject is not certain.[5]
References
edit- ^ Orford.), Horace Walpole (4th earl of (1849). Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists, and notes on other arts; collected by G. Vertue, digested from his MSS.; with additions by J. Dallaway. [With] A catalogue of engravers who have been born, or resided, in England. London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c "Bartholomew Dandridge (1691-circa 1754)". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ a b Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham (1994). Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790. Yale University Press Pelican history of art (5th ed.). Yale University Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-300-05833-8.
- ^ W. Edward Riley; Sir Laurence Gomme (1914). "Nos. 55 and 56, Great Queen Street". Survey of London: volume 5: St Giles-in-the-Fields, pt II. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ "Portrait of a painter". Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
External links
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