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.
Joan Herrick (née May), Lady Herrick
by James Basire
line engraving, published 1795
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by James Basire
line engraving, published 1795
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Sir William Herrick (Heyricke); Joan Herrick (née May), Lady Herrick
by James Basire
line engraving, published 1795
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by James Basire, after Joseph Samuel Webster
line engraving, after 1796
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by James Basire
line engraving, published 1800
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by James Basire, published by John Nichols, after George Gower
line engraving, published 1 January 1800 (1579)
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by James Basire
line engraving, published 1804
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by James Basire, published by Nichols & Son
line engraving, published 31 December 1804
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by James Basire, after Joseph Samuel Webster
line engraving, published 1804
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by James Basire, after Samuel Woodforde
line engraving, (1808)
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by James Basire, published by Nichols & Son, after Johan Joseph Zoffany
line engraving, published 1 May 1810
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by James Basire, after Guy Head
line engraving, 1810 (1800)
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by James Basire, after John Shackleton
line engraving, published 1810
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John Talbot, first earl of Shrewsbury and first earl of Waterford
by James Basire
line engraving, published 1811
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by James Basire
line engraving, published 1812
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by James Basire, possibly after Sir Peter Lely
line engraving, published 1813
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by James Basire
line engraving, 1813
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by James Basire, published by Nichols, Son & Bentley, after François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard
line engraving, published 1 March 1814
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Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel
by James Basire, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens
line engraving, published 1763 (1629)
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Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel
by James Basire, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens
line engraving, published 1763 (1629)
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