Mary Villiers Duchess of Lennox and Richmond by Richard Gaywood

Richard Gaywood ( fl. 1650–1680) was an

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engraver.

Life

Gaywood was a pupil of

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, and worked in his style. A friend of Francis Barlow, he engraved many of his designs.

Works

Gaywood was prolific, the bulk of his work consisting of portraits and frontispieces to books, for which he was widely employed by publishers. Much of his work was for Peter Stent. Gaywood is noted for his etchings of birds and animals after Francis Barlow. They worked together on a large etching after Titian's ''Venus and the Organist'', which was dedicated to

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In Effigiam Nicholai Culpeper Equitis by Richard Gaywood

Gaywood's portraits include copies from engravings by Hollar, and those in the ''Centum Icones'' of Anthony van Dyck. Others were those of:

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, and the early kings of Scotland in his ''History of Scotland'', 1655;

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;

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; Sir Peter and Lady Ellinor Temple; George Monck, Duke of Albemarle (after Barlow); Madame Anne Kirk; General

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; Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke; and John Browne the instrument maker. Among the frontispieces and title-pages was that to Johann Jacob Wecker's ''Secrets of Art and Nature'' (1660). Other plates were a set of social scenes, representing the ''Five Senses'', a view of Stonehenge, ''The most magnificent Riding of Charles the II to the Parliament, 1661'', ''The Egg of Dutch Rebellion'' (satirical print, 1673), ''Capture of a Whale at Sea'', ''Democritus'', and ''Heraclitus''.

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