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Enoch Seeman

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Despite royal commissions, Seeman the younger's work is thought of as less accomplished than that of the top flight of portraitists because of his lesser attention to detail in the facial features of different sitters. This is more apparent in male than in female subjects of Seeman's.
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was previously attributed to Seeman the Younger but it has now been established that it was painted by his father, Enoch Seeman the Elder. It is also almost certain that the 1717 portrait of
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Seeman was brought to London from Danzig by his father, also Enoch (born circa 1660), in around 1704. The earliest known painting by the younger Seeman is a group portrait of the
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Meschutt, David, "William Byrd and His Portrait Collection", MESDA (May 1988), pp. 18–47
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and her nine children. His portrait of Lady Caroline D'Arcy, Countess of Ancram, wife of the
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as 'Exceptionally lively'. Also by Seeman the younger are a 1739 portrait of
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is not by Seeman the Younger, as attributed, but also by his father.
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Webley, John, "The Seeman family of artists from Danzig", 2022
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in 2000 for £11,750. It had previously been owned by
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self-portrait
Georgian era
Danzig
Bisset
Godfrey Kneller
Castle Forbes
Grampian
British royal court
George II
Queen Caroline of Ansbach
Windsor Castle
Royal Collection
Jane Pratt Taylor
Lord Chief Justice
John Pratt
William Byrd, II
Westover
Virginia Historical Society
Metropolitan Museum
Sir James Dashwood
Grove Dictionary of Art
Abraham Tucker
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Trust
Dunham Massey
Lady Diana Cecil
Belton House
Lady Cust
Earl of Ancram

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