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WILLIAM FAITHORNE (1626 or 1627-1691)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:FAITHORNE (1626 or 1627-1691)  , See also:English painter and engraver, was See also:born in See also:London and was apprenticed to See also:Robert Peake, a painter and printseller, who received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood from See also:Charles I . On the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he accompanied his See also:master into the See also:king's service, and being made prisoner at Basinghouse, he was confined for some See also:time to Aldersgate, where, however, he was permitted to follow his profession of engraver, and among other portraits did a small one of the first See also:Villiers, See also:duke of See also:Buckingham . At the See also:earnest solicitation of his See also:friends he very soon regained his See also:liberty, but only on See also:condition of retiring to See also:France . There he was so fortunate as to receive instruction from Robert See also:Nanteuil . He was permitted to return to See also:England about 165o, and took up a See also:shop near See also:Temple See also:Bar, where, besides his See also:work as an engraver, he carried on a large business as a printseller . In 168o he gave up his shop and retired to a See also:house in Blackfriars, occupying himself chiefly in See also:painting portraits from the See also:life in crayons, although still occasionally engaged in See also:engraving . It is said that his life was shortened by the misfortunes, dissipation, and See also:early See also:death of his son See also:William . See also:Faithorne is especially famous as a portrait engraver, and among those on whom he exercised his See also:art were a large number of eminent persons, including See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Spelman, See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, Henry See also:Somerset, the See also:marquis of See also:Worcester, See also:John See also:Milton, See also:Queen See also:Catherine, See also:Prince See also:Rupert, See also:Cardinal See also:Richelieu, Sir See also:Thomas See also:Fairfax, Thomas See also:Hobbes, See also:Richard See also:Hooker, Robert second See also:earl of See also:Essex, and Charles I . All his See also:works are remarkable for their See also:combination of freedom and strength with softness and delicacy, and his See also:crayon paintings unite to these the additional quality of clear and brilliant colouring . He is the author of a work on engraving (1622) . His son WILLIAM (1656-1686), See also:mezzotint engraver, at an early See also:age gave promise of attaining See also:great excellence, but became idle and dissipated, and involved his See also:father in See also:money difficulties . Among persons of See also:note whose portraits he engraved are Charles II., See also:Mary princess of See also:Orange, Queen See also:Anne when princess of See also:Denmark, and Charles XII. of See also:Sweden .

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account of the Faithornes is that contained in See also:Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting . A life of Faithorne the See also:elder is preserved in the See also:British Museum among the papers of Mr Hayford, librarian to See also:Lord See also:Oxford, and an intimate friend of Faithorne .

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