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17821912040195John Boydell 1782. First Edition. Art Prints & Posters. Good. Original mezzotint engraved by Valentine Green after Gainsborough's painting of Thornton. 62 x 38 cm. 25 x 15 1/4 inches Generally in good condition. Top margin frayed. Small chip from left margin. <br> Thornton is pictured sitting directed facing and looking towards left. He wears a short wig plain dress arms resting on chair three-cornered hat in right hand in the back ground to right two pillars and curtain in distance to left a landscape. <br> John Thornton 1720-1790 was a wealthy Yorkshire merchant who multiplied his fortune by trading with Russia. He was known for this charitable giving. <br> Refs: O'Donoghue IV page 277; Whitman Alfred British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green 1902 p. 118. Chaloner Smith John British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century 1883 p. 131. Horne Henry An Illustrated Catalogue of Engraved Portraits and Fancy Subjects painted by Thomas Gainsborough RA Published between 1760 and 1820 and by George Romney Published between 1770 and 1830 with the Variations of the State of the Plates 1891 p. 66. John Boydell unknown