1775
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Richard Robinson is a 1775 ink by John Raphael Smith, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a man in old-fashioned clothes. He wears a dark hat, a long coat with buttons, and a white wig. Behind him, a dark curtain frames a small landscape with trees and a building. His hands rest on a cane, and he looks straight ahead. The text at the bottom names him "Richard Robinson" and calls him "Archbishop of Armagh." The style looks like an engraving, not a painted portrait. Check out Mezzotint to see how this kind of print was made.
John Raphael Smith (25 May 1751 – 2 March 1812) was a British painter and mezzotinter. He was the son of the landscape painter Thomas Smith and the father of John Rubens Smith, a painter who emigrated to the United States.
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