John Faber Sr.

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John Faber Sr. (c.1660–1721) was a Dutch portrait engraver active in London, where he set up a shop for producing and marketing his own work. His son John Faber Jr. was also active in this field.

Life[]

Born in The Hague, Dutch Republic, Faber initially worked in Amsterdam as a miniaturist. He moved to England in the late 1690s. In 1707 Faber was settled in The Strand, near the Savoy Hospital, where he kept a print-shop, and practised as a mezzotint engraver. He died at Bristol in May 1721.[1]

Works[]

Mezzotint portrait of Sir Walter Mildmay, founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by John Faber Senior.
Mezzotint portrait of William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, and founder of Brasenose College, Oxford, by John Faber Senior.

Faber was noted for the small portraits which he drew from the life on vellum with a pen, one being of Simon Episcopius. He engraved many portraits from the life, among them being those of Francis Atterbury, Hans Caspar von Bothmer, John Hough, and Henry Sacheverell, besides numerous portraits of dissenting clergy. In 1712 he was employed at Oxford to engrave a set of the portraits of the founders of the colleges; this was followed by a similar set of portraits at Cambridge, making forty-five in all.[2] To his visit to Oxford were due also the engraved portraits of Samuel Butler, Charles I, Geoffrey Chaucer, Duns Scotus, John Hevelius, Ben Jonson, and others.[1]

He also engraved sets of portraits, such as ‘12 Ancient Philosophers,’ after Rubens, ‘The Four Indian Kings’ (1710), and ‘The 21 Reformers.’[1]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Cust 1889, p. 112
  2. ^ Clayton 1997, p. 61.

Further reading[]

  • Brown, David Blayney (1996). "Faber, John, the elder". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. 10. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 720. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. OCLC 1033645486 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Bryan, Michael (1903). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. 2. New York: Macmillan. p. 138. OCLC 1041637252 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Clayton, Timothy (1997). The English Print, 1688–1802. London, New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 20, 61, 293 n. 8. ISBN 0-300-06650-3.
  • Cust, Lionel Henry (1889). "Faber, John (1660?-1721)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 112.
  • Redgrave, Samuel (1878). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (2nd ed.). London: George Bell. p. 147. OCLC 1043009709 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Sharp, Richard (2004). "Faber, John (c. 1660–1721)". In Matthew, H. C. G. & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 18. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 876–877. ISBN 0-19-861368-7. OCLC 1035755389 – via the Internet Archive. Also available via Oxford DNB Online (subscription or UK public library membership required).CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Strutt, Joseph (1785). "John Faber the Elder". A Biographical Dictionary Containing All the Engravers, From the Earliest Period of the Art of Engraving to the Present Day. 1. London: Robert Faulder. p. 281. OCLC 1045376483 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Thieme, Ulrich, ed. (1915). "Faber, John I (Johan)". Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). 11. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. pp. 154–155. OCLC 1039502179 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Walpole, Horace (1879). Anecdotes Of Painting In England. London: Ward, Lock, and Co. p. 461. OCLC 1039484687 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Wax, Carol (1990). The Mezzotint: History and Technique. New York: H. N. Abrams. pp. 32, 54, 74. ISBN 0810936038 – via Google Books.

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