WILLIAM DANIELL R.A. (1769-1837)
Portraits of Artists and Writers
after
GEORGE DANCE R.A. (1741-1825)
These drawings were all made by William Daniell R.A. (1769-1837) after drawings George Dance the Younger R.A. (1741-1825) ‘sketched from life’ between 1793 and 1810.
‘Dance particularly enjoyed making portrait drawings, and on weekends, released temporarily from his onerous duties as the Clerk of Works of the City of London, he drew “profiles” […] of his family and friends. Dance regarded this activity as “a great relaxation from the severed studies and more laborious employment of my professional life” […]’. (Gillian Forrester, in Wilcox, Forrester, O’Neil, Sloan, The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. p. 29, Cat. No.14).
The drawings below were all made by Daniell as part of the process of making soft-ground etchings after Dance’s portraits. The prints were published by Daniell from 1802, and finally bound in two volumes and re-published in 1814 as A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.. Daniell’s soft-grounds can be viewed on the NPG website (CLICK HERE) as can examples of George Dance’s original portraits (CLICK HERE).
- 1. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808); writer and Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 26th July 1794 and preparatory to a soft-ground etching published by Daniell on 1st July 1809. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10×8.5 inches.
£575
● - 2. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) Arthur Young (1741-1820); agriculturalist, traveller and writer. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a 1794 drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) and preparatory to a soft-ground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10.5×8.25 inches.
£475
● - 3. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) Edmund Garvey R.A. (1740-1813); Irish landscape painter. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 10th November 1793, and preparatory to a softground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10.5×8.5 inches.
£575
● - 4. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) Francis Milner Newton (1720-1794); portrait painter and Secretary to the Royal Academy. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 10th March 1793, and preparatory to a softground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10×8.5 inches.
£575
● - 5. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) Henry Tresham (1749?-1814); painter. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 10th March 1793, and preparatory to a softground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10.5×8.25 inches.
£575
● - 6. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) John Francis Rigaud (1742-1810); painter. Chalk and pencil. c.1812. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 1st April 1793, and preparatory to a softground etching published by Daniell on 1 July 1812. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 11.25×8.5 inches.
£575
● - 7. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) John Taylor (1757-1832); writer, critic, newspaper editor, publisher … and oculist. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 21st December 1794 and preparatory to a soft-ground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10.5×8.5 inches.
£475
● - 8. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) John Wolcot (AKA Peter Pindar) (1738-1819); writer and satirist. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 7th July 1793 and preparatory to a soft-ground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10×8 inches.
£575
● - 9. Daniell R.A., William (1769 – 1837) Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809); actor, dramatist, poet. Chalk and pencil. c.1802-1814. After a drawing by George Dance R.A. (1741-1825) made on 9th May 1795 and preparatory to a soft-ground etching published by Daniell. Daniell published soft-ground etchings after portraits by Dance from 1802. These were finally bound in two volumes and re-published as ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1793 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A.’ in 1814. 10.5×8.25 inches.
£675
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