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Robert White
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Robert White
- A collection of nine plumbago drawings
Nine, each pencil on vellum;
one inscribed in pencil, centre left: Edward VI; one indistinctly signed verso
including portraits of King Edward VI (1537-1553); King William III (1650-1702); Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744); William Salmon (1644-1713); and five others
Catalogue Note
Robert White was a pupil of David Loggan (1634-1692). Like his master, White specialised in the art of plumbago drawing. He also worked as an engraver and in 1674 he engraved the first Oxford Almanac. His drawings rarely appear on the open market, the majority are held in public museums, including ten drawings in the Huntington Library, California and a further thirteen in the British Museum, London.