Enoch Seeman

Enoch Seeman the Younger was born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, around 1694. His father, also Enoch was born around 1661, and the Seeman family were painters. Having been brought to London from his home of Flanders by his father in 1704, the younger Seeman's painting career as we know it began with a group portrait of the Bisset family in the style of the portraitist Godfrey Kneller, now held at Castle Forbes in Grampian, Scotland, and dated by an inscription 1708. As a painter to the British royal court Seeman the Younger completed portraits of George I, in 1730, in the robes of his coronation and of George II some years later. The first of these pictures is held at the Middle Temple in London, England, and the second is at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, part of the royal collection. In 1734, Seeman painted a portrait of Jane Pratt Taylor, daughter of Lord Chief Justice John Pratt. The portrait was sent to William Byrd, II of Westover, in Virginia, where it became part of the largest colonial portrait collection of the early eighteenth-century. The painting is now part of the collection of the Virginia Historical Society. The Yale University Art Gallery owns a portrait of Elihu Yale in 1717 by Seeman and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA owns his rendering of Sir James Dashwood, described by the Grove Dictionary of Art as 'Exceptionally lively'. Also by Seeman the younger, Abraham Tucker in 1739 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, and various copies of sixteenth and seventeenth century portraits. The National Trust owns two examples of this set of his work - at Dunham Massey in Cheshire, England, a copy of a portrait of Lady Diana Cecil, and at Belton House in Lincolnshire, England, of Lady Cust and her Nine Children.
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Enoch Seeman Self portrait oil painting


Self portrait
Pintura Identificación::  81162
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Self portrait
1708(1708) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
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Enoch Seeman Portrait of George II of Great Britain oil painting


Portrait of George II of Great Britain
Pintura Identificación::  83409
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Portrait of George II of Great Britain
. 1730(1730) Medium Oil cyf
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Enoch Seeman Portrait of John Boyle oil painting


Portrait of John Boyle
Pintura Identificación::  84050
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Portrait of John Boyle
1735-1745(1735-1745) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 62.9 x 50.8 cm (24.8 x 20 in) cyf
1735-1745(1735-1745) _ Medium_Oil_on_canvas _ Dimensions_62.9_x_50.8_cm_(24.8_x_20_in) _ cyf
   
   
     

Enoch Seeman Lady Sophia and Lady Charlotte Fermor oil painting


Lady Sophia and Lady Charlotte Fermor
Pintura Identificación::  88880
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Lady Sophia and Lady Charlotte Fermor
oil on canvas 116 x 166 cm cyf
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Enoch Seeman Portrait of Lady Caroline Darcy oil painting


Portrait of Lady Caroline Darcy
Pintura Identificación::  96452
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Portrait of Lady Caroline Darcy
before 1745(1745) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 245.1 X 153.1 cm cyf
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     Enoch Seeman the Younger was born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, around 1694. His father, also Enoch was born around 1661, and the Seeman family were painters. Having been brought to London from his home of Flanders by his father in 1704, the younger Seeman's painting career as we know it began with a group portrait of the Bisset family in the style of the portraitist Godfrey Kneller, now held at Castle Forbes in Grampian, Scotland, and dated by an inscription 1708. As a painter to the British royal court Seeman the Younger completed portraits of George I, in 1730, in the robes of his coronation and of George II some years later. The first of these pictures is held at the Middle Temple in London, England, and the second is at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, part of the royal collection. In 1734, Seeman painted a portrait of Jane Pratt Taylor, daughter of Lord Chief Justice John Pratt. The portrait was sent to William Byrd, II of Westover, in Virginia, where it became part of the largest colonial portrait collection of the early eighteenth-century. The painting is now part of the collection of the Virginia Historical Society. The Yale University Art Gallery owns a portrait of Elihu Yale in 1717 by Seeman and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA owns his rendering of Sir James Dashwood, described by the Grove Dictionary of Art as 'Exceptionally lively'. Also by Seeman the younger, Abraham Tucker in 1739 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, and various copies of sixteenth and seventeenth century portraits. The National Trust owns two examples of this set of his work - at Dunham Massey in Cheshire, England, a copy of a portrait of Lady Diana Cecil, and at Belton House in Lincolnshire, England, of Lady Cust and her Nine Children.

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