Gerhard Bockman

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.

Engraving of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot.

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. JSTOR 41829562.
• Clayton, Timothy (1997). The English Print, 1688–1802. London, New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 20, 61, 293 n. 8. ISBN 0-300-06650-3.
• Grindle, Nicholas (2004). "Bockman, Gerhard". In Matthew, H. C. G. & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 390–391. ISBN 0-19-861356-3. OCLC 1035755389 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Nicholas Grindle (2004). "Bockman, Gerhard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2748. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Killanin, Michael Morris, Baron (1948). Sir Godfrey Kneller and His Times, 1646-1723. London: Batsford. p. 101. OCLC 1263366 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Radford, Ernest (1886). "Bockman, R." . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 288–289.
• Redgrave, Samuel (1878). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (2nd ed.). London: George Bell. p. 45. OCLC 1043009709 – via the Internet Archive.