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Arthur Pond (c. 1705–1758) was an English painter and engraver.

Arthur Pond
Arthur Pond, 1739 self-portrait
Born	1705  London
Died	1758  (aged 52–53) London

Life

Born about 1705, he was educated in London, and stayed for a time in Rome studying art, in company with the sculptor Roubiliac. He became a successful portrait-painter.

From 1727 to about 1734 Pond lived at No. 16-17 Great Piazza, Covent Garden.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1752, and died in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 9 September 1758. His collection of old master drawings was sold the following year, and realised over £1400.

Works

His numerous original portraits include Alexander Pope, William, Duke of Cumberland, and Peg Woffington. Pond was also a prolific etcher, and used various mixed processes of engraving by means of which he imitated or reproduced the works of masters such as Rembrandt, Raphael, Salvator Rosa, Parmigianino, Caravaggio, and the Poussins.

In 1734–5 he published a series of his plates under the title Imitations of the Italian Masters. He also collaborated with George Knapton in the publication of the Heads of Illustrious Persons, after Jacobus Houbraken and George Vertue, with their lives by Thomas Birch (London, 1743–52); and engraved sixty-eight plates for a collection of ninety-five reproductions from drawings by famous masters, in which Knapton was again his colleague. Another of his productions was a series of twenty-five caricatures after Pier Leone Ghezzi, republished in 1823 and 1832 as Eccentric Characters.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Pond, Arthur". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Further reading

• Lippincott, Louise (1983). Selling Art in Georgian London: The Rise of Arthur Pond. Studies in British Art. London, New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03070-3. LCCN 83-40003. OCLC 181794146 – via the Internet Archive.
• Lippincott, Louise (1988). "Arthur Pond's Journal of Receipts and Expenses, 1734-1750". The Walpole Society. 54: 220–333. ISSN 0141-0016. JSTOR 41829564. OCLC 5543522303.

External links

• Media related to Arthur Pond at Wikimedia Commons
• Portraits of Arthur Pond at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Arthur Pond (1701-1758) est un artiste peintre, graveur et marchand d'estampes britannique, membre de la Royal Society. Son fonds fut repris par John Boydell.

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