James MacArdell
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James MacArdell | |
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 Portrait of MacArdell, 1771 mezzotint by Richard Earlom | |
| Born | c. 1729 |
| Died | 2 June 1765 (aged 35–36) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | Mezzotint |
James MacArdell (c. 1729 – 1765) was an Irish mezzotinter.
Life
He was born in Cow Lane (later Greek Street), Dublin, around 1729. He learnt mezzotint-engraving from John Brooks. When Brooks moved to London in 1746, MacArdell and other pupils followed him. He opened a print shop at the Golden Head in Covent Garden, where in 1753 he published six views of Dublin. MacArdell died on 2 June 1765, in his fifty-seventh year, and was buried in the churchyard at Hampstead, where a stone bore an inscription to his memory.[1]
Works
His earliest work appears to be a head of Archbishop Hugh Boulter in an engraving, altered from one by Brooks of Bishop Robert Howard. A head of Dr. Birch is stated to have been done by MacArdell in London. A portrait of Bishop Thomas Secker, engraved by MacArdell, was published in London in 1767, and also a humorous plate, entitled 'Teague's Ramble.' In 1748 he engraved a portrait of John Cartwright, after S. Elmer, and a small portrait of Charles Bancks, a Swedish painter, for the Chevalier Descazeaux, an eccentric confined in the Fleet Prison, of whose portrait MacArdell made two etchings.[1]
In 1749, he engraved the picture of Lady Boyd, after
After Peter Paul Rubens MacArdell engraved 'The Family of Sir Balthasar Gerbier,' and 'Rubens with his Wife and Child,' from the picture once at Blenheim Palace; after Vandyck, 'Time clipping the Wings of Cupid,' 'The Finding of Moses,' and Lord John and Lord Bernard Stuart; after Rembrandt, 'The Mathematician,'[clarification needed] 'Tobit and the Angel,' 'A Dutch Interior', and 'The Tribute Money.' MacArdell engraved numerous other portraits and subject pictures. Some were from his own drawings, such as those of Charles Blakes, an actor, as 'M. le Medecin,' and David Garrick as 'Peter Puff.'[1]
References
- ^ a b c Cust 1893.
- ^ Among them were portraits of the Rev. John Reynolds, Lady Elizabeth Montagu, Anne Day (afterwards Lady Fenhoulet), Miss Horneck, Admiral Boscawen, John, Earl of Rothes, Lady Anne Dawson, Horace Walpole and others.
- ^ Among them, Mary Panton, Duchess of Ancaster, Martin Folkes, and the Earl and Countess of Egmont.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1893). "MacArdell, James". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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