Sir George Wharton
William Faithorne
1601 to 1650
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 13 × 8.4 cm (5 1/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.11.731
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 ...