Sir Martin Archer Shee
(1769-1850), Portrait painter and President of the Royal AcademySitter in 3 portraits
Artist associated with 91 portraits
The Irish-born Shee was primarily a portrait painter. He moved to London in 1788 where, after working as an engraver, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1790. He was elected a full academician in 1805 An energetic reformer, Shee published Rhymes on Art, or the Remonstrance of a Painter (1800) which called for national support for the arts. The book was well received and was instrumental in the foundation of the British Institution in the same year.
by Samuel Cousins, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published 1841
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by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, printed by Brooker & Harrison, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published after 19 October 1841
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by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, printed by Brooker & Harrison, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published after 19 October 1841
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by Henry Cousins, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, published by Robert Roe, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published 1 June 1842
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by Samuel Cousins, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published 1843
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by Henry Cousins, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published 1843 or after
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by C. Jousiffe, published by Staunton & Sons, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, published May 1848
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by Thomas Williams Hunt, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
stipple and line engraving, published 1854 (exhibited 1835)
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by Charles William Sherborn, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
etching, 1886
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published by John Player & Sons, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1935
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Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount Eversley
by Samuel William Reynolds, published by Charles Augustus Mornewick Jr, after Sir Martin Archer Shee
mezzotint, 1843
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