Word: mezzotint
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Peter Pelham, a relatively unknown Boston mezzotint engraver and portrait painter, died in 1751, leaving his studio to his thirteen-year-old stepson. In the course of the next two years, that studio studio provided the nutriment for what became one of the richest and most vital careers in the history American painting. Pelham's stepson was John Singleton Copley, and his career is commemorated this year a major retrospective exhibition of his work. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York have gathered 103 oils, pastels, minatures, and drawing (including...
...fifteen, Copley embarked on his artistic career with a mezzotint portrait of the Reverend William Welsteed, the recently deceased minister of Boston's New Brick Church. The similarity between this portrait and Peter Pelham's 1743 mezzotint of the Reverend Mr. William Cooper is more than a stylistic one. Copley actually took the original Pelham plate and altered the features to fit the new commission...
...Copley became head of his family upon the death of his stepfather, a mediocre mezzotint artist and dancing teacher who had barely introduced the boy to art. To help support his mother and half brother, Copley had to translate this bowing acquaintance into professional skill. His response to the challenge was heroic...
...eight months, 15 Corcoran staff members had scoured the U.S., made expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...
...preeminent. Oij view was a Gutenberg Bible, one of the first printed with movable type (see p. 30). There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...