Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, K.G.
William Faithorne
1601 to 1650
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 28.6 × 21.3 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1974.53.4
About the Artist
William Faithorne
William Faithorne, often called "the Elder" (c. 1616–1691), was a pioneering English engraver, printmaker, and portrait painter whose masterful line engravings elevated the craft in seventeenth-century Britain. Born in London to a bit-maker, he was apprenticed in 1635 to the printseller William Peake for a decade; following Peake's early death in 1639, he continued under Robert Peake and received ...