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Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists - Vol. 3

By: Horace Walpole | Book details

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JOANNES BARRA, 1

(—1634,)

of what country I know not, appears to have engraved these pieces—

Lodowick, Duke of Richmond and Lenox, 1624. [32l. 11s.—S.]

A title-plate, 1624.

Another, 1632.

A man's head, something like a bust, oval ornament ; two figures, representing painting and literature, 1622.

ADDITIONAL PORTRAITS.

Q. Henrietta Maria ; four English verses, "Maria not Mara call me Navemy, (anagram.) So be I stilde by God's posterity," &c. 11l. 11s.—S.

Henry Carey, Viscount Falkland, Lord Deputy of Ireland, oval 4to. 31l. 10s.—Bindley.

Christian II. Elector of Saxony, 1605.

Prince Maurice of Nassau.

Joachim, Count of Ortenburg.

Several subjects from painters.

There were many other engravers in the reign of James I. with whose private story we are so little acquainted, that it is impossible to ascertain their several ages and precedence. I shall give them promiscuously as they occur.


JOHN NORDEN.

(1603.)

In Mr. Bagford's collection was a view of London published by Norden in 1603, 2 at bottom a representation of the Lord Mayor's show, with variety of habits. In the same person's possession, Vertue saw another plan of London by T. Porter, in which he observed these particulars : at the upper end of the Haymarket was a square building called Peccadilla-hall; at the end of Coventry- street, a gaming-house, afterwards the mansion and garden of the Lord Keeper Coventry ; and where Gerard-street is was an artillery-ground or military garden made by Prince

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According to Strutt and Bryan, he was born in Holland, about the year 1572, and came to England in 1624 ; for between that date and 1627 he published several plates with his name as resident in London. He appears to have formed his style after the Sadelers, but unequally. He worked entirely with the graver, in a stiff and laboured manner, and made no use of the point.__D.____[According to Immerzeel, Barra was born in Holland, about 1574, and died in London, 1634. He appears also to have been a glass painter, as he sometimes styled himself Vitrearum Imaginum Pictor. Heineken, Dictionnaire, &c.—W.]
2
In that year, 1603, one LAU ENCE JOHNSON graved several heads for the Turkish History.—He engraved likewise a portrait of James I. 1603, which at Sir M. Sykes's sale was supposed to be unique, and produced 44l.—D.

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