Gerhard Bockman Explained

Gerhard Bockman (1686–1773) was a Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.

Works

Bockman was known as an artist in Amsterdam; by 1711, he was active in England, and was a subscriber of the Great Queen Street Academy.He painted several portraits of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and a life-size half-length of Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford. He copied after Godfrey Kneller, and engraved portraits in mezzotint after Anthony van Dyck, Jacob van Loo, Michael Dahl, James Worsdale, and others. He painted and engraved (1743) a picture of St Dunstan holding the Devil by the nose with tongs. Karl Heinrich von Heinecken mentions amongst his portraits those of Thomas Chubb the deist, of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, and of William Walker.

Further reading

• Bignamini. Ilaria. 1988. George Vertue, Art Historian and Art Institutions in London, 1689–1768: A Study of Clubs and Academies. The Walpole Society. 54. 1–148. 41829562.
• Book: Clayton, Timothy. The English Print, 1688–1802. Yale University Press. 1997. 20, 61, 293 n. 8. 0-300-06650-3. London, New Haven.
• Encyclopedia: Grindle. Nicholas. 2004. Bockman, Gerhard. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Matthew. H. C. G.. Harrison. amp. Brian. 6. Oxford University Press. Oxford, New York. 390–391. 0-19-861356-3. 1035755389. the Internet Archive.
  • Nicholas Grindle . Bockman, Gerhard . 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/2748.
• Book: Killanin, Michael Morris, Baron. Sir Godfrey Kneller and His Times, 1646-1723. Batsford. 1948. 101. London. 1263366. Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. Google Books.
• Bockman, R.. Radford. Ernest. Ernest Radford. 5. 288–289.
• Book: Redgrave, Samuel. Samuel Redgrave. A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. George Bell. 1878. 2nd. London. 45. 1043009709. the Internet Archive.