Robert Vaughan
(circa 1600-circa 1660), ArtistSitter in 4 portraits
Artist associated with 77 portraits
A versatile line engraver, producing portraits, maps, bookplates, series of prints and the occasional broadsheet. His portraits ranged from leaders such as Sir Francis Drake to contemporaries, including the lawyer Sir George Croke. Vaughan may have been interested in alchemical magic: Elias Ashmole's Theatrum chemicum Britannicum (1652), an anthology of poems on alchemy, is illustrated with Vaughan's engravings, and throughout his working life he was associated with the alchemist poet Thomas Vaughan. In 1651, Vaughan, a royalist supporter during the civil wars, was indicted by the Commonwealth authorities for publishing a portrait print of the recently executed King, Charles I.
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, circa 1650-1675
NPG D20443
by Robert Vaughan, after Simon de Passe
line engraving, published 1650 (1617)
NPG D21170
by Robert Vaughan, after Simon de Passe
line engraving, published 1650 (1617)
NPG D21171
by Robert Vaughan, after Simon de Passe
line engraving, published 1650 (1617)
NPG D21172
Thomas Hobbes in the title to his 'Philosophicall Rudiments'
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, circa 1651
NPG D30168
Thomas Hobbes in the title to 'Philosophicall Rudiments'
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, circa 1651
NPG D42992
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1653
NPG D29231
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1653
NPG D29232
by Robert Vaughan, published by James Crumpe, after Unknown artist
line engraving, published 1654
NPG D31575
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1655
NPG D28830
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1655
NPG D28831
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1656 or 1658
NPG D33243
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1656 or 1658
NPG D33244
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, 1657
NPG D25895
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1657
NPG D28866
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1657
NPG D28871
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1658
NPG D28035
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1658
NPG D29123
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, published 1658
NPG D20461
by Robert Vaughan
line engraving, circa 1661
NPG D26956
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