Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1808
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Mayo II is a 1808 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows John Mayo II, a man with a serious expression. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The artist added many details to his face and outfit. The painting is interesting because it was made using a special process that involved engraving, which is a technique where the artist scratches a design into a metal plate. The engraving process allowed the artist to create many copies of the portrait. This was useful for making portraits of important people like John Mayo II. You can learn more about this technique by looking up the technique: engraving.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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