Gerhard Bockman
Gerhard Bockman (1686–1773) was a Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.
Also recorded as George Bockman
Gerhard Bockman
- Born
- 1686
- Died
- 1773
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Dutch
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Gerhard Bockman (1686–1773) was a Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.
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Bockman was known as an artist in Amsterdam; by 1711, he was active in England, and was a subscriber of the Great Queen Street Academy. • Illustration — Engraving of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot He painted several portraits of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and a life-size half-length of Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford. He copied after Godfrey Kneller, and engraved portraits in mezzotint after Anthony van Dyck, Jacob van Loo, Michael Dahl, James Worsdale, and others. He painted and engraved (1743) a picture of St Dunstan holding the Devil by the nose with tongs. Karl Heinrich von Heinecken mentions amongst his portraits those of Thomas Chubb the deist, of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, and of William Walker.
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1686
Gerhard Bockman born.
1773
Gerhard Bockman died.
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- Bignamini, Ilaria. George Vertue, Art Historian and Art Institutions in London, 1689–1768: A Study of Clubs and Academies. The Walpole Society. 54. 1–148. 1988. 41829562.
- Clayton, Timothy. The English Print, 1688–1802. Yale University Press. 20, 61, 293 n. 8. 1997. 0-300-06650-3.
- Grindle, Nicholas. Bockman, Gerhard. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 6. 390–391. 2004. 0-19-861356-3.
- Nicholas Grindle. Bockman, Gerhard. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/2748.
- Killanin, Michael Morris, Baron. Sir Godfrey Kneller and His Times, 1646-1723. Batsford. 101. 1948. 1263366.
- Radford, Ernest. 5. 288–289.
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