Beschreibung:

The Honble. Thomas Wentworth Esqr.
London: circa 1745. Mezzotint. Printed on laid paper. Image size: 12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. Condition : trimmed within the plate mark on all sides, edges of sheet have been remargined, image is slightly rubbed. A fine quality mezzotint portrait of Thomas Wentworth, Commander in Chief of the British forces in America . An excellent image by Alexander Van Haecken Ramsay, son of the poet of the same name, achieved a great level of success as a portrait painter, but after his appointment in 1767 as portrait painter to the King, he became, for a while, the most fashionable of them all. The present work is a print from one of the earlier works done before he received the royal seal of approval. Not in O'Donoghue.