J. G. Schotel, Stipple Engraved Portrait by Duncan, circa 1840
€ 145
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
circa 1840
Mapmaker / artist
Duncan (engraver)
Publisher
Not named on the sheet
Technique
Stipple engraving
Coloring
Uncolored
Sheet size
26 × 19 cm (10.2 × 7.5 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14343-27
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Good condition for its age. Toning with scattered foxing and a few small stains to the margins; light creasing to the upper right corner. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
This original stipple and line engraving is a portrait of a man lettered in script beneath the image as "J. G. Schotel". The engraver has signed the plate "Duncan sc." in fine script at the lower right of the portrait, just above the margin.
The sitter is shown half length, turned slightly to the left, with thick dark hair brushed forward over the brow and long side whiskers. He wears a high white collar and a loosely knotted cravat, a light waistcoat with large buttons and a dark coat with wide lapels, with a small bow pinned to the coat. The face is modeled in fine stipple, the clothes in bold line, and the figure fades into a hatched vignette at the sides.
An engraved stipple portrait of Schotel by Andrew Duncan in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is cataloged as the Dordrecht marine painter Johannes Christiaan Schotel (1787 to 1838), one of the most admired Dutch painters of the sea in the generation after the Napoleonic wars. Schotel was known for his ships in storm and calm and for his studies of sky and water, and his son Petrus Johannes Schotel followed him as a marine painter. The dress, the hair and the whiskers here belong to the 1830s, and the engraving is dated circa 1840 accordingly.
Stipple engraving, in which the plate is worked with clusters of fine dots rather than lines, was a favorite technique for portraits because it renders the softness of skin so well, and here it is combined with confident linework in the coat. The plate mark is not visible on this sheet, which has wide margins all round.
Portraits of Dutch painters are sought by collectors of Dutch art and of marine painting. This one would frame well in a narrow molding with a wide mat, or hang with other portraits of artists in a study or library.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
