ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1757) Oil on canvas: 110 x 83 cm Warsaw, National Museum. To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it in a new tab. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708-1759) was already a well-known and highly-regarded poet, writer and satirist when he decided to embark on a …
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A cultivated gentleman
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1779) Lord Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (c. 1760) Oil on canvas (96 x 74 cm) Dunham Massey Hall, England (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") As it is well known, Mengs and Batoni were the undisputed master-portraitists of their time. Every aristocratic British …
An English Diplomat
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728=1779) Louis de Visme (1762-67) Oil on canvas (129 x 83 cm) Christ Church College, Oxford (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Another example of Mengs' excellence as a portraitist. The portrait must have been painted between 1762 and 1767, the years when de …
An Irish Gentleman
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728-1759) William Burton Conyngham Pastel on paper (65 x 48.5 cm) Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Pastel was a very popular medium among artists in the XVIII century. Mengs had made his name as a pastelist in Dresden, …
Old Masters 