Word: mezzotints
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...career, Artist Copley never lacked money. Born when Boston was the most prosperous city in North America, his childish bent for drawing was encouraged by his stepfather, Schoolmaster Peter Pelham, whose shingle advertised: "Reading, Writing, Needlework, Dancing, and the Art of Painting upon Glass." Peter Pelham was also a mezzotint engraver of real ability, made able portraits of Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist, in 1755 painted...
...portrait of a Boston clergyman who declined the presidency of Harvard College in 1737, the Reverend William Cooper, was acquired this week by Harvard University from an anonymous donor. The portrait is one of the rarest and most valuable mezzotint engravings of early New England clergymen, and was made in 1743 by Peter Pelham, copied from an oil painting by John Smibert...
...collector for the Cambridge Museum buys an interesting mezzotint of an early 19th Century house. Next time he look's at it it seems to have changed. And the next time, and the next...
Many will learn with surprise that Paul Revere probably furthered the cause of the Revolution more by his engraving of the "Boston Massacre" than by his famous ride. Among others of the Colonial period Peter Pelham, the stepfather of Copley, was perhaps the greatest artist with his mezzotint portraits, a fact which few people realize...
...enable a reader to identify any print of which he is doubtful. The catalogue is to-be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the person portrayed and will give such details as description of the subject, size, engraver, printer, date, and whether the print is an engraving, woodcut, mezzotint, or caricature. At present the catalogue has been completed only through the letter...