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unknow artist Portrait of Catharine Macaulay USA oil painting artist


Portrait of Catharine Macaulay
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Painting ID::  78406
Visit European Gallery 		  ca. 1775(1775) Oil on canvas 137 x 105 cm (53.9 x 41.3 in) cjr

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Pine, Robert Edge
      American, 1720-88 English painter, active also in America. His father, John Pine (1691-1756), was a well-known engraver and printseller of whom William Hogarth painted a portrait (c. 1755; Fredericton, NB, Beaverbrook A.G.). Robert Edge Pine was initially considered to have the potential to rival Joshua Reynolds as a portrait painter, a promise derived from such works as the full-length portrait of George II (1759; Audley End, Essex), painted without a sitting being granted him by the King. In 1760 he won a premium at the Society of Arts, London, for a history painting, the Surrender of Calais to Edward III, also known as the Burghers of Calais (untraced), which was engraved in 1762 by Fran?ois Germain Aliamet (1734-88), and another in 1763 for Canute the Great Reproving his Courtiers for their Impious Flattery (untraced), also engraved by Aliamet. Pine was not invited to become a founder-member of the Royal Academy in 1768, probably because of his radical politics; that year he painted a portrait of the political agitator John Wilkes (London, Westminster Hall). In 1772 he left the Society of Arts following a quarrel over its choice of directors; he moved to Bath, where he joined his brother, Simon Pine (d Aug 1772), a painter of miniatures. Their sister was married to the landscape painter Alexander Cozens. While at Bath Pine painted his most ambitious family group,
Pine, Robert Edge Portrait of Catharine Macaulay USA oil painting artist


Portrait of Catharine Macaulay
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Painting ID::  81137
Visit European Gallery 		  . 1775(1775) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 137 x 105 cm (53.9 x 41.3 in) cyf

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