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Arthur Pond
Arthur Pond
	Arthur Pond, 1739 self-portrait
Born	1705 ; London
Died	1758 (aged 52–53); London

Arthur Pond (c. 1705–1758) was an English painter and engraver.

Life edit

Born about 1705, he was educated in London, and stayed for a time in Rome studying art, in company with the sculptor Roubiliac. He became a successful portrait-painter.

From 1727 to about 1734 Pond lived at No. 16-17 Great Piazza, Covent Garden.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1752, and died in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 9 September 1758. His collection of old master drawings was sold the following year, and realised over £1400.

Works edit

Portrait of Rhoda Delaval Astley, c. 1750, whom Pond taught to paint

His numerous original portraits include Alexander Pope, William, Duke of Cumberland, and Peg Woffington. Pond was also a prolific etcher, and used various mixed processes of engraving by means of which he imitated or reproduced the works of masters such as Rembrandt, Raphael, Salvator Rosa, Parmigianino, Caravaggio, and the Poussins.

In 1734–5 he published a series of his plates under the title Imitations of the Italian Masters. He also collaborated with George Knapton in the publication of the Heads of Illustrious Persons, after Jacobus Houbraken and George Vertue, with their lives by Thomas Birch (London, 1743–52); and engraved sixty-eight plates for a collection of ninety-five reproductions from drawings by famous masters, in which Knapton was again his colleague. Another of his productions was a series of twenty-five caricatures after Pier Leone Ghezzi, republished in 1823 and 1832 as Eccentric Characters.

Benjamin from Jacob and his twelve sons

In 1756 he was commissioned by Bishop of Durham Richard Trevor to paint the portrait of Benjamin missing from the set Jacob and his twelve sons painted by Francisco de Zurbarán. This hangs in the Long Dining Room at Auckland Castle.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References edit

^ "The Piazza: Notable private residents in the Piazza". British History Online. Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
^ Brown, Mark (31 July 2016). "Zurbarán masterpieces to leave UK for US for the first time". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
^ "The Long Dining Room at Auckland Castle". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ Jenkins, Simon (7 October 2005). "London should keep its hands off the treasures of the north". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
^ "Bid to keep castle paintings in N-E". The Northern Echo. 14 May 2001. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
^ "Francisco Zurbarán paintings saved by £15m donation" (Press release). BBC. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Pond, Arthur". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co.