English painter and engraver
Arthur Pond
(
c.
1705
–1758) was an English painter and engraver.
Life
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Born about 1705, he was educated in London, and stayed for a time in Rome studying art, in company with the sculptor
Roubiliac
. He became a successful portrait-painter.
From 1727 to about 1734 Pond lived at No. 16-17 Great Piazza,
Covent Garden
.
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He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
in 1752, and died in
Great Queen Street
,
Lincoln's Inn Fields
, 9 September 1758. His collection of old master drawings was sold the following year, and realised over £1400.
Works
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His numerous original portraits include
Alexander Pope
,
William, Duke of Cumberland
, and
Peg Woffington
. Pond was also a prolific etcher, and used various mixed processes of engraving by means of which he imitated or reproduced the works of masters such as
Rembrandt
,
Raphael
,
Salvator Rosa
,
Parmigianino
,
Caravaggio
, and the Poussins.
In 1734?5 he published a series of his plates under the title
Imitations of the Italian Masters
. He also collaborated with
George Knapton
in the publication of the
Heads of Illustrious Persons
, after
Jacobus Houbraken
and
George Vertue
, with their lives by
Thomas Birch
(London, 1743?52); and engraved sixty-eight plates for a collection of ninety-five reproductions from drawings by famous masters, in which Knapton was again his colleague. Another of his productions was a series of twenty-five caricatures after
Pier Leone Ghezzi
, republished in 1823 and 1832 as
Eccentric Characters
.
In 1756 he was commissioned by
Bishop of Durham
Richard Trevor
to paint the portrait of Benjamin missing from the set
Jacob and his twelve sons
painted by
Francisco de Zurbaran
. This hangs in the Long Dining Room at
Auckland Castle
.
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