Anthony or Antony Russel (–1743) was an English portrait-painter.

Life

Antony Russel, son of the painter

Theodore Russel Theodore Russel (also spelled Rousseel, Roussel, or Russell; 1614–1689) was an English portrait-painter of Dutch extraction. Origins Theodore Russel, born in London, was baptised at the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, on 9 October 1614. He w ...

, carried on the family tradition of portrait-painting, and is said to have studied under John Riley. A portrait by him of the famous Dr. Sacheverell, painted in 1710, was engraved in mezzotint by John Smith.Cust 1897, p. 425. He was an intimate friend of George Vertue, who engraved some of his portraits, and he supplied Vertue with many biographical notes concerning artists of the seventeenth century, which are now embodied in Walpole's ''Anecdotes of Painting''. He died in London in July 1743, aged about eighty.

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* * Cust, L. H. and Sumner, Ann (2004)
"Russell, Anthony (1663?–1743)"
In ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press. * Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011)
"Russel, Antony"
In '' Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. Oxford University Press. * Walpole, Horace (1765–71)
''Anecdotes of Painting in England''
Twickenham: Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill. 1663 births 1743 deaths 17th-century English painters 18th-century English painters English portrait painters English people of Dutch descent {{England-painter-17thC-stub