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Dutch painter
Gerhard Bockman (1686–1773) was a Dutch portrait painter and
mezzotint engraver.
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.
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.
Bignamini, Ilaria (1988). "George Vertue, Art Historian and Art Institutions in London, 1689–1768: A Study of Clubs and Academies". The Walpole Society . 54 : 1–148.
JSTOR
41829562 .
Clayton, Timothy (1997). The English Print, 1688–1802 . London, New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 20, 61, 293 n. 8.
ISBN
0-300-06650-3 .
Grindle, Nicholas (2004).
"Bockman, Gerhard" . In Matthew, H. C. G. & Harrison, Brian (eds.).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 6. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 390–391.
ISBN
0-19-861356-3 .
OCLC
1035755389 – via the Internet Archive.
Killanin, Michael Morris, Baron (1948).
Sir Godfrey Kneller and His Times, 1646-1723 . London: Batsford. p. 101.
OCLC
1263366 – via Google Books. {{
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Radford, Ernest (1886).
"Bockman, R." . In
Stephen, Leslie (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 288–289.
Redgrave, Samuel (1878).
A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (2nd ed.). London: George Bell. p.
45 .
OCLC
1043009709 – via the Internet Archive.