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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of Lady Barbara North, full-length, in an oyster satin dress and a blue wrap, on a terrace
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Charles Jervas (c.1675-1739)
The Irish portrait painter Charles Jervas was born in Dublin around 1675. Moving to London, he studied under the established portraitist Sir Godfrey Kneller for two years between 1694 and 1695. Jervas was also an art-collector, and after selling a series of prints of Cartoons by the Renaissance Old Master Raphael to Dr. George Clarke of All Souls College, Oxford, he used the proceeds to travel to Paris and Rome, remaining abroad until about 1709 wh (showing 500 of 1669 characters). |
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