Bartholomew Dandridge (artist)

Life

According to Horace Walpole, Dandridge was the son of a house-painter. He studied at Sir Godfrey Kneller's academy of painting and later at the St Martin's Lane Academy. He had a career as a fashionable portrait painter in London for more than forty years, now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery but on loan to Spencer House.

In 1733, he moved to 55, Great Queen Street, which had formed part of the house of Sir Godfrey Kneller until his death two years before. He played a part in the development of the conversation piece, making groups of model figures to judge effects of light and shade.

His portraits of the historian Nathaniel Hooke and an unknown subject (believed to be William Kent) are also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.

References

References

1. (1849). "Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists, and notes on other arts; collected by G. Vertue, digested from his MSS.; with additions by J. Dallaway. [With] A catalogue of engravers who have been born, or resided, in England".
2. "Bartholomew Dandridge (1691-circa 1754)". National Portrait Gallery.
3. (1914). "Nos. 55 and 56, Great Queen Street". Institute of Historical Research.
4. Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. (1994). "Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790". Yale University Press.