May 01, 2013 - Sale 2312

Sale 2312 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOHN GREENWOOD (after Frans van Mieris)
Dutch Interior Showing a Young Man Courting a Young Woman.

Mezzotint, circa 1770. 280x190 mm; 11x7 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Proof before letters and with the lower margin partially unclean. Ex-collection Gottfried Eissler (Lugt supplement 805b, verso). A superb, early impression with no sign of wear.

American-born Greenwood (Boston 1727-1792 Margate) produced an extensive body of engraved and mezzotint prints in the late 1700s in England and Holland, though he never produced a single work in his homeland. LeBlanc 11.