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Michele Benedetti
1745-1810
The Right Honble Edmund Burke / Sir Joshua Reynolds RA pinxt 1775 ; M. Benedetti sculp: Pupil to F. Bartolozzi RA.
Peel 3190
Published:
[London] : Pub'd C. Dyer Compton Strt. Soho, [1791?]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
In pencil on album leaf below mounted image: Pub. by Allen & West, 15 Paternoster Row, Dec 1 1796 (from a print in the Lewis-Walpole Library).
Notes:
After a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The second state according to Hamilton; possibly a 19th century restrike, with the Dyer imprint; an earlier state gives M. Benedetti as the publisher, with a date of August 24, 1791.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Oval portrait of Edmund Burke, half length, shoulders forward, looking 3/4 to the left, wearing a plain buttoned coat.
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