Robert White (1645 – 1703) was an English draughtsman and engraver. A Londoner, he was a pupil of David Loggan, and became a leading portrait engraver. White was celebrated for his original portraits, drawn in pencil on vellum in the manner of Loggan. He died in reduced circumstances in Bloomsbury Market, where he had long resided, in November 1703.
An engraving by White showing injuries that can be caused by different weapons, from John Browne's A Compleat Discourse of Wounds (1678)[1]
Worksedit
White's plates number about four hundred. They include many of the public and literary characters of the period. A large proportion of them were executed from the life, the rest begin from pictures by Lely, Kneller, Riley, Beale, and others.
White engraved the plates to Francis Sandford's account of the funeral of the Duke of Albemarle, 1670; the first Oxford Almanac, 1674; a set of portraits of members of the Rawdon family; the plates to John Guillim's 'Heraldry' and Gilbert Burnet's History of the Reformation; as well as many book-titles and frontispieces. A few mezzotint portraits of noblemen bear White's name as the publisher, and are assumed to have been executed by him. A portrait of White was engraved by W. H. Worthington for Ralph Nicholson Wornum's edition of Horace Walpole's Anecdotes.
White was engraver for Andrew Snape's The Anatomy of an Horse first published in 1683. The images were taken from earlier woodcuts by Carlo Ruini.[2]
Original portraits and White's engravingsedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert White (engraver).
Portrait of Susanna Temple, later Lady Lister (1620) by Cornelius Johnson - Google Art Project.
^John Browne (1678), A Compleat Discourse of Wounds, both in General and Particular: Whereunto are Added the Severall Fractures of the Skull, with their Variety of Figures: As also a Treatise of Gunshot-wounds in General, London: Printed by E. Flesher, for William Jacob, at the Black Swan in Holborn, OCLC 12329068.
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