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WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 601 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704) , English engraver and draughtsman, was born in London in 1645. He studied en-graving under
David
  Loggan, for whom he executed many architectural subjects; his early works also include landscapes and engraved title-pages for books. He acquired
great
  skill in portraiture, his works of this class being commonly
drawn
  with black-lead pencil upon vellum, and afterwards excellently en-graved in line. Portraits executed in this manner he marked ad vivuna, and they are prized by collectors for their artistic merit and their authenticity. Virtue catalogued 275 portrait
1 J. Paine Collier, Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays from Early MS. Corrections in a Copy of the Folio, 1632 (London, 1853).engravings by White, including the likenesses of many of the most celebrated personages of his day; and nine portraits engraved in mezzotint are assigned to him by J. Chaloner
Smith
 . White died at Bloomsbury, London, in 1704. His son, George White, who was born about 1671 and died about 1734, is also known as an engraver and portrait-painter.


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