William and Mary silver porringer
Agate & gilt metal jewel box
An oil by Henri Van Gorp.
“Lady in an Ermine Trimmed Coat”, oil on canvas c1815, by Henri Van Gorp.
Henri Van Gorp was a painter of gouaches, watercolours as well asportraits and genre scenes in oils. He was born in 1756 in Paris, dying after 1819. He entered the Académie Royale school in June 1773 as a protégé of Étienne Jeaurat, staying there for 10 years. Van Gorp was a great success in both the bawdy genre and the ‘tearful’ sentimental genre; although his style drew its origins from the decadent tone of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s work, he probably had more in common with Debucourt and Mallet. He appears to have been particularly highly regarded as a portraitist and his genre scenes were frequently reproduced as engravings.
His work is represented in the collections of Épinal, Rouen & St-Omer.
Biblio: Bénézit: Dictionnaire des Peintres. (220 x 165)
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