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Engraved Picture - $777 (Coeur d'Alene)
condition:
good
size / dimensions:
42 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 1 1/2
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Signed in pencil by Richard Smythe. Published by Thomas McLean, London, Publisher to Her Majesty, Oct. 1st 1892.
Having done an exhaustive search for an original matching painting or engraving, I have concluded that this must have been an actual family portrait. I have found no other comparable pieces in this size or quality of framing from Smythe. Therefore I think this was likely a private work for a very wealthy English family.
42 ½ high
38 ½ wide
1 ½ deep
The piece does have several normal small spots of age discoloration but is not distracting. Frame has small nicks that can be easily covered with Howard’s Restor-a-Finish stain. Photos are a bit distorted by reflections in the glass.
Engraver Richard Smyth “Having studied at the Manchester School of Art, Richard Smythe exhibited at the Royal Academy and Berlin Academy. He had changed his name from Smith to Smythe prior to his marriage to Ada King in 1896. He died in 1934 at his home in Hampton Hill, Middlesex. Smythe created mezzotints after famous works of art by artists including Etty, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Turner and others.
Publisher Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket, London (British, 1788-1875, publisher c.1811-1929) was a publisher and print-seller who specialized in the publication of political caricatures and issued hundreds of such cartoons in journals such as the Monthly Sheet of Caricatures. The McLean company was taken over by McLean’s grandson Thomas Miller McLean, location at 7 Haymarket Street, the younger McLean retired and sold the Thomas McLean gallery to art dealer Eugene Cremetti in 1908.