Charles Phillips
Charles Phillips worked in mezzotint, the tonal intaglio technique that dominated British portrait and reproductive printmaking in the eighteenth century, and his surviving output centres on figure subjects after Old Masters. The single sheet held here reproduces Rubens's portrait of himself with his wife Helena Fourment and their child, capturing the painter's warm handling of family intimacy through the mezzotint rocker's soft gradations. The impression dates from 1770, the only year represented in this archive for the artist, and stands as the collection's sole example of his craft.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
