James Basire
(1730-1802), EngraverSitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 85 portraits
Basire was apprenticed to engraver Richard William Seale and afterwards travelled to Italy with the artist and engraver Roger Dalton. By the 1760s he had established a successful engraving practice. In 1755 Basire was appointed engraver to the Society of Antiquaries and after that time documentary or pictorial antiquarian engraving formed the majority of his work. Basire is best remembered for his 1770 engraving of the historical painting The Field of the Cloth of Gold (c.1550-80) that depicts the festivities following the meeting of Henry VIII with the French King Francis I in 1520. This was the largest engraving ever made and took Basire over two years to complete.
by James Basire, after William Mason
pencil, 1771-1775, based on a work of 1771
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Mary Carleton (née Moders) ('The German Princess with her Suppos'd Husband and Lawyer')
by James Basire, after F. Nicholls
etching and line engraving, after 1673
NPG D21077
by James Basire, after Thomas Simon
line engraving, 18th century
NPG D18543
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
by James Basire, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, 18th century (1630s)
NPG D16330
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
by James Basire, after Jonathan Richardson
line engraving, (1721)
NPG D32570
by James Basire
line engraving, mid-late 18th century
NPG D31593
'Monument of George Talbot, fourth Earl of Shrewsbury'
by James Basire, after Hirst
line engraving, possibly mid or late 18th century
NPG D24241
by James Basire, after George Vertue
stipple engraving, (1748)
NPG D36343
by James Basire, after George Vertue
stipple engraving, (1748)
NPG D36344
by James Basire, after John Patoun
line engraving, 1761 (circa 1746)
NPG D40437
by James Basire, after William Hogarth
line engraving, published 1762
NPG D5300
by James Basire, after William Hogarth
line engraving, published 1762
NPG D5301
by James Basire, after William Hogarth
line engraving, published 1762
NPG D5302
by James Basire, after William Hogarth
etching, published 1762
NPG D14121
by James Basire, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani
line engraving, 1763
NPG D28941
Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge)
by James Basire, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani
line engraving, published 1765
NPG D31912
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
by James Basire, published by John Boydell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
line engraving, 1766
NPG D32552
Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge)
by James Basire, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani
line engraving, published 1767
NPG D17066
by James Basire
line engraving, possibly late 18th century
NPG D25251
by James Basire, after Moses Griffith
line engraving, late 18th century
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