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Title: European enamels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cunynghame, Henry H (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935
Subjects: Enamel and enameling
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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amels is Lady Cockburn and herChildren, after the famous picture by Reynolds.The children are partly naked, hanging about themother. Collina (Lady Gertrude Kirkpatrick)and Sylvia (Lady Anne Kirkpatrick) are bothafter Sir Joshua. The picture of Lady Hamiltonas Ariadne, after Madame Lebrun, was bought byLord Hertford in 1859 for £700. William Essex was living in Clerkenwell in1818, when he exhibited his first enamel, A DogsHead. In 1824 he exhibited a portrait of theEmpress Josephine, after Isabey, and the next yearsome groups of flowers. In 1839 he was appointedenamel painter to the Queen, in succession to HenryBone, who had died a few years previously. Hedied in 1869. His son, W. B. Essex, succeeded himas an artist, but with greatly inferior ability. At the South Kensington Museum there is asmall but good collection of his works. One ofthe largest and most striking is of Lord Byron,after Phillips. The work is bold and clear, thoughsomewhat hard. A portrait of Garrick, after Gains-150
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DAVID GARRICK W. ESSEX. AT SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM MINIATURE ENAMEL PAINTING borough, is also good. Perhaps the best of Essexswork are his flower pieces, of which there are twoexcellent examples, apparently after Dutch masters.A group of peasants, after Wouwerman, is also verywell copied. The Cottage Toilet, after Wilkie, isgood in colour, but somewhat tame. There are alsoseveral portraits of inferior merit. In Germany a revival of painted enamels wasinaugurated at Munich by Louis of Bavaria.Among about twenty artists, the best known areWustlich Deininger, Langhamer, and Meinelt.Their work has no originality, and only consists offaithful copying. CHAPTER IX PAYSAGISTS ON SNUFF-BOXES ANDFANCY WARE OR delicacy of work in ornamental enamel- I i ling, no nation has ever equalled, nor probablywill equal again, the French work of thelatter half of the eighteenth century. Thousandsof the most exquisite snuff-boxes attest the tasteand skill of the French jewellers. The FrenchRevolution entire

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