James Watson
James Watson belongs to the mezzotint tradition of eighteenth-century British portraiture, a technique he used to render the soft tonal transitions of the medium's characteristic velvety darks and lights. His subjects were most often figures posed in domestic interiors, as in the example of a lady seated in a chair. The archive holds a single sheet by this artist, executed in mezzotint and dated by the Met to 1778, with impressions up to that year.
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