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WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 601 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHITE, See also:ROBERT (1645-1704) , See also:English engraver and draughtsman, was See also:born in See also:London in 1645. He studied en-graving under See also:David Loggan, for whom he executed many architectural subjects; his See also:early See also:works also include landscapes and engraved See also:title-pages for books. He acquired See also:great skill in See also:portraiture, his works of this class being commonly See also:drawn with See also:black-See also:lead See also:pencil upon vellum, and afterwards excellently en-graved in See also:line. Portraits executed in this manner he marked ad vivuna, and they are prized by collectors for their See also:artistic merit and their authenticity. Virtue catalogued 275 portrait 1 J. See also:Paine See also:Collier, Notes and Emendations to the See also:Text of See also:Shakespeare's Plays from Early MS. Corrections in a Copy of the See also:Folio, 1632 (London, 1853).engravings by White, including the likenesses of many of the most celebrated personages of his See also:day; and nine portraits engraved in See also:mezzotint are assigned to him by J. See also:Chaloner See also:Smith. White died at Bloomsbury, London, in 1704. His son, See also:George White, who was born about 1671 and died about 1734, is also known as an engraver and portrait-painter.

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