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ROBERT WHITE (1645-1704)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT WHITE (1645-1704)  ,
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English engraver and draughtsman, was born in
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London in 1645 . He studied en-graving under David Loggan, for whom he executed many architectural subjects; his early
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works also include landscapes and engraved title-pages for books . He acquired
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great skill in
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portraiture, his works of this class being commonly
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drawn with black-lead pencil upon vellum, and afterwards excellently en-graved in
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line . Portraits executed in this manner he marked ad vivuna, and they are prized by collectors for their
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artistic merit and their authenticity . Virtue catalogued 275 portrait 1 J . Paine Collier, Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays from Early MS . Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632 (London, 1853).engravings by White, including the likenesses of many of the most celebrated personages of his day; and nine portraits engraved in
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mezzotint are assigned to him by J . Chaloner Smith . White died at Bloomsbury, London, in 1704 . His son, George White, who was born about 1671 and died about 1734, is also known as an engraver and portrait-painter .

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