Rare - Tho’s Hammersley Esq - Eng by Richard Golding After Hamilton of Dublin - Line order Engraving 1812

Line engraving of a portrait of Tho's Hammersley Esq. 1812. Eng by Richard Golding from the original picture by Hamilton of Dublin. London published 1812 by Richard Golding. St Bartholomew's Hospital. Plate size 37.2 cm x 31.4 cm - 30.5 cm x 26 cm size of portrait area.

Like many in the “Robinson” collection and where this engraving was sourced, seem to have odd paper-sizes, as most were ‘working proofs' and this could have something to do with it, though we are not too sure?

Showing slight mottling, and expected markings on paper for an engraving almost 200 years old.

A ‘copy' of the same engraving in the NPG archives; Thomas Hammersley by and published by Richard Golding, after Hugh Douglas Hamilton line engraving, published 1822 (1812) (1812) 14 ½ in. x 12 in. (368 mm x 304 mm) plate size; 17 ½ in. x 14 ½ in. (444 mm x 367 mm) paper size. Purchased, 1966. Reference Collection NPG D35292. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?search=sp&sText=NPG%20D35292&firstRun=true

NOTE: All other similar engravings either on the National order Portrait Gallery, The Royal Academy of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum and commercial or private dealers are not as rare as what's been listed here; theirs are ‘copies', prints made after these originals. Our collection is 100% genuine and sourced directly from John Henry Robinson's own portfolio, in which most of his own works appear, as well as other artists such as Richard Golding's.

John Henry Robinson was born at Bolton, Lancashire and was brought up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18 he became a pupil of James Heath, for about two years.

Robinson was one of the nine eminent engravers who, in 1836, petitioned the House of Commons on the state engraving in this country, and who with others in 1837, addressed a petition to the king asking for the admission of engravers to the highest rank in the Royal Academy: which was not conceded until some years later. In 1856, Robinson was elected an "associate engraver of the new class", and in the following year missed election as a full member only by the casting vote of Sir Charles Eastlake, which was given to George Thomas Doo; on the retirement of the latter in 1867 he was elected a royal academician.

Robinson received a first-class gold medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1855. He died at New Grove, Petworth, Sussex, where he had long resided, on 21 October 1871, aged 75. Late in life he married a lady of property, which rendered him financially independent of his art. He was a justice of the peace for the county of Sussex and an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts at St. Petersburg.