1800s GEORGE HAYTER Engraving “Russell’s Trial and Conviction” SIGNED Framed COA$284.00
1800s GEORGE HAYTER Engraving “Russell’s Trial and Conviction” SIGNED Framed COA
$284.00
Artist: Sir George Hayter (English, 1792 – 1871)
Title: The Trial of Lord William Russell
Medium: Antique steel engraving on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by master engraver Charles George Lewis (English, 1808–1880).
Year: 1879
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image size 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The work portrays the trial at the Old Bailey in London of William Russell, Lord Russell, a Whig who was convicted of treason for his alleged part in the Rye House Plot of 1683 to assassinate Charles II and his brother and heir James, Duke of York. The painting portrays Russell’s trial and conviction, shortly before his execution.
Sir George Hayter was a notable English painter, specialising in portraits and large works involving in some cases several hundred individual portraits. Queen Victoria appreciated his merits and appointed Hayter her Principal Painter in Ordinary and also awarded him a Knighthood 1841(b London, 17 Dec. 1792; d London, 18 Jan. 1871). The son of a miniaturist, Charles Hayter (1761–1835), he studied at the Royal Academy Schools and in Rome. In 1837 he was appointed portrait and history painter to Queen Victoria, and on the death of Wilkie in 1841 he was made ‘principal painter in ordinary to the queen’. He is known chiefly for his royal portraits and his huge groups (House of Commons, 1833, 1833–43, NPG, London), unexciting in their handling, but composed with dexterity and accomplished grandiloquence.
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