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Painter, b. 1753 - d. 1794

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    • BENJAMIN VAN DE GUCHT (BRITISH 1753-1794), PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK
      Jan. 31, 2024

      BENJAMIN VAN DE GUCHT (BRITISH 1753-1794), PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK

      Est: £5,000 - £7,000

      BENJAMIN VAN DE GUCHT (BRITISH 1753-1794) PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICKOil on canvas, feigned ovalSigned and dated '1768' (lower right)55.5 x 44cm (21¾ x 17¼ in.)Provenance:(Possibly) the estate of David Garrick and left to his friend BartlemanSale, Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1981, lot 61R. & J. Jones, London Mr ReauvierMrs MarsdenSale, Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 'The Paula Peyraud Collection, 6 May 2009, lot 104. Sold Stair Galleries, New York, 30 April 2016, lot 417. Benjamin van der Gucht (1753-1794) was a close friend of David Garrick and painted him on multiple occasions. His posthumous auction `The Property of The Late David Garrick', by Mr. Christie, 23 June 1823, included lot 7, 'V.D. Gucht Portrait of a Gentleman, and Portrait of an old Lady in oils'. The artist was the thirty-second child of the engraver Gerard van der Gucht and studied at St Martins and the Royal Academy. An accomplished painter he was also a successful art dealer and restorer, building an art gallery in Upper Brook Street in 1776. Van der Gucht specialised in painting theatrical scenes and portraits of actors and received significant patronage from the great actor and stage manager (indeed, he once went on a buying trip for Garrick and his wife in Holland and Paris). This portrait is an oval rendition of a threequarter length portrait painted in 1764 by Pompeo Batoni (1708-87), held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA1845.61). Garrick travelled to Italy in 1763-1765 and like many that went on the Grand Tour had his portrait painted by Batoni as a gift for Richard Kaye in exchange for an antique gem that Kaye had found at the Baths of Caracalla. Garrick is holding an illustrated edition of Terence's 'Comedies' (1736) open at the page showing masks for the Andria copied from a manuscript in the Vatican Library Transcending his modest provincial origins, David Garrick (1717- 1779), the high-spirited, ambitious lad from Lichfield morphed into a theatrical icon, dominating the London stage as a naturalistic and engaging actor for three decades. Later, as the commanding manager of Drury Lane, Garrick was at the epicentre of theatrical debates and cultural politics. Besides his dramatic genius and versatility as an actor, what made Garrick exceptional was the extraordinary scope of his artistic and literary achievements, his professional and social status, and his international celebrity. A theatrical superstar who elevated the art of acting and professionalised the English stage, Garrick was also a talented dramatist poet, artistic patron and collector. After his magnificent state internment in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, Edmund Burke's epitaph encapsulated Garrick's cosmopolitanism, literary talents, and lifelong devotion to Shakespeare: 'Shakespeare was the chosen object of his study: in his action, and in his declamation he expressed all the fire, the enthusiasm, the energy, the facility, the endless variety of that great poet. Like him he was equally happy in the tragic and comic style. He entered into the true spirit of the poets, because he was himself a poet, and wrote many pieces with elegance and spirit. He raised the character of his profession to the rank of a liberal art, not only by his talents, but by the regularity and probity of his life and the elegance of his manners.'[1] Key to his success, Garrick possessed a genius for self-promotion and a mastery of image-making which set him apart from his contemporaries. His features widely disseminated in multiple mediums, thus amplifying his cultural pre-eminence, posthumous reputation and arguably birthing modern celebrity culture

      Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
    • Attributed to Benjamin Vandergucht (1753-1794)
      Dec. 07, 2022

      Attributed to Benjamin Vandergucht (1753-1794)

      Est: £2,000 - £3,000

      Attributed to Benjamin Vandergucht (1753-1794) Portrait of the comedian Henry Woodward (1714-1777) oil on canvas 73 x 61cm Provenance: Euston Hoare Esq., 5 Buckingham Palace Gardens, London, and by family descent until offered at Sotheby's, London, 8th April 1998, lot 106, when bought back by the family, Chillesford Lodge, Suffolk The present portrait is similar to, but in reverse of the composition of Henry Woodward by Sir Joshua Reynolds at Petworth House.

      Cheffins
    • Two Engravings of Mr. Garrick
      May. 28, 2020

      Two Engravings of Mr. Garrick

      Est: $150 - $250

      English, 18th C. Comprising, a William Hogarths "Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard the 3rd" and a mezzotint engraving of Mr. Garrick, as Stewart of the Stratford Jubilee, September 1769, after Benjamin Vandergucht (1753-1794) and P. Saunders, fecit. Hogarth unframed. Hogarth: 18"h x 24"w Other: 16"h x 11-1/2"w

      Nye & Company
    • BENJAMIN VAN DER GUCHT (1753-1794): PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK
      Apr. 30, 2016

      BENJAMIN VAN DER GUCHT (1753-1794): PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK

      Est: $2,000 - $4,000

      BENJAMIN VAN DER GUCHT (1753-1794): PORTRAIT OF DAVID GARRICK Oil on canvas, 1768, signed 'B. Vander Gucht' and dated lower center left. 22 x 18 in., 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (frame). Note: Painter Benjamin Van der Gucht specialized in theatrical scenes and portraits. Actor David Garrick was a patron. Provenance: The Estate of David Garrick; R. & J. Jones, London. Property from the Estate of Paula Peyraud

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    • Attributed to Benjamin van der Gucht (British, 1753-1794) Portrait of a lady in a red and white lace bonnet and black lace shawl
      Mar. 10, 2016

      Attributed to Benjamin van der Gucht (British, 1753-1794) Portrait of a lady in a red and white lace bonnet and black lace shawl

      Est: £300 - £500

      Attributed to Benjamin van der Gucht (British, 1753-1794) Portrait of a lady in a red and white lace bonnet and black lace shawl oil on chamfered panel h:21 w:18 cm Provenance: Private collection, UK.

      Cheffins
    • Attributed to Benjamin Van Der Gucht (1753-1794)
      May. 23, 2013

      Attributed to Benjamin Van Der Gucht (1753-1794)

      Est: £2,000 - £3,000

      Attributed to Benjamin Van Der Gucht (1753-1794) British. Portrait of Sir George Thomas Smart (1776-1867), English Musician, Organist and Composer, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 20".

      John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
    • BENJAMIN VANDERGUCHT 1753-1794
      Nov. 23, 2006

      BENJAMIN VANDERGUCHT 1753-1794

      Est: £5,000 - £7,000

      PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS JOHN HENRY JOHNSTONE (1749-1828) measurements note 75 by 62 cm., 29½ by 24½ in. Half length, seated, wearing a red coat and waistcoat, holding a print of William Shakespeare oil on canvas NOTE John Johnstone was a well respected actor. He was a regular performer in the Drury Lane company, and he played a range of parts, including one of the witches in Macbeth, and several female characters in pantomine. He played characters both in plays and in pantomime for over twenty-five seasons. In 1766 he bacame the secretary of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, of which Garrick was Chairman.

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