William Russell, Baron Russell (1639-1683)
Thomas Cook (c.1744 - 1818)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1775
Materials
Paper
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 770130.67
Summary
Line engraving. Half-length portrait of a man with long hair dressed in robes facing left. Placed in a cartouche above a putti wrapping a body in a shroud. William Russell, Baron Russell (1639-1683). Engraved by Thomas Cook (c.1744-1818), after an earlier engraving by Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780) after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). Published by George Kearsley snr. (d.1790), London, 1775. Part of a portfolio of engravings and copy photographs of members of the Russell and related families.
Provenance
Gifted to the National Trust from the Estate of Anne Russell, 2017.
Makers and roles
Thomas Cook (c.1744 - 1818), engraver (printmaker) after Jacobus Houbraken (Dordrecht 1698 - Amsterdam 1780), engraver (printmaker) after Sir Godfrey Kneller (Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), artist George Kearsley the Elder (1739 - 1790), publisher