Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1754-1844)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Samuel William Reynolds was a painter and engraver. Despite publishing his first prints in the mid-1790s, he found himself in debt by 1800 and came to rely upon the financial help of Samuel Whitbread MP. It was under Whitbread’s patronage that Reynolds was able to broaden his interests to include painting, architecture and landscape design. He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy and British Institution and was also a collector; owning a group of drawings by Thomas Girtin. In 1809 he visited France for the first time and he went on to exhibit engravings at the Paris Salon in 1810 and 1812. Reynolds also worked in Paris on occasion, where he found a market for his paintings of landscapes and cottage scenes.
Samuel Cousins was a well known mezzotint engraver of portraits and decorative subjects after his contemporaries and 18th-century British artists. Born in Exeter, he was the pupil of, and assistant to, the engraver S. W. Reynolds. Cousins set up his own business in London in 1825 and would later become the first engraver to be elected a Royal Academician. He engraved plates after the foremost artists of his day including Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873). His younger brother Henry Cousins (c.1809-1864) was also a mezzotint engraver.

People

Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth Addington (1757 - 1844)

Places

Subjects

paper (as Subject), male portrait, 19th century costume, dress coat, cravat, Prime Minister, column, curtain

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Thomas Clement Thompson (c.1778 - 1857)
Samuel William Reynolds (1773 - 1835)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)

Title

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1754-1844)

Edition

Proof

Date

published September 1823

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Purchased 1992

GAC number

15937