DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

HANDEL HANDEL, COMMEMORATION 289
portrait by Ph. Mercier, belonging to Lord
Malmesbury, was exliibited at Soutli Kensington
in 1867. A copy of this portrait was put up,
hut not sold, at Christie's, some years since.
Portraits by Reynolds, A'an der Mj'n, and Jlichael
Dahl, are in Dr. Cunimings's collection. In
Dobson and Armstrong's U'iUinm Hogarth
(1902), pp. ISO, 233, is mentioned a painting of
Handel by Hogarth, measuring 17i x 21 in., as
being in 1S33 in the possession of Jlr. Peacock,
of Marylebone. No description of the picture
is given. A portrait, ' from an original painting
by Hogarth,' was engraved in mezzotint (April 4,
1821) by C. Turner. It is not clear whether
this is after Mr. Peacock's picture ;
it rejjresents
Handel as a youngish man, without a wig, but
with a soft cap on Ins head. A portrait by-
Van der Bank, formerly in the possession of the
Caecilian Society, was offered for sale by Mr.
S. H. Nelson in 1899. A portrait, attributed
to Knellet, was offered for sale by Dimmock of
Norwich, in 1890, and a large painting (probably
an old copy from Hudson), three-quarter
length, life size, is now in the piossession of
Dr. H. Davan Wetton. It was formerly in
possession of the Chitty family, and belonged
to Sir Thomas Chitty, Lord ilayor of London
in 1750. It may possibly be the original
portrait presented to the Foundling Hospital
by Hudson in 1750.] A capital little head by
Grrisoni, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge,
to which it was presented by the Rev.
A. R. Ward. A portrait by Thornhill is also in
that Museum, representing Handel at the organ,
said to have been painted for the Duke of
Chandos. A little picture, signed ' F. Kyte,
1742,' which belonged formerly to Mr. Keith
Milnes, who gave it to Mr. Rolfe, from whose
heirs it passed into the possession of the writer,
[it is now in that of Dr. 'W. H. Cummings] was
the original of Houbraken's engraving, and probably
also of that by Schmidt, which is very rare.
It is reproduced by Hawkins, who pronounces
that ' the features are too prominent. ' [A
portrait by Tisclibein is mentioned in Forkel,
ii. 63. An oval, head and shoulders, is in the
Music School Collection, Oxford. A miniature
by Zincke on enamel, a copy of the Gopsall
portrait, was lent by Baroness Burdett-Coutts
to the Guelph E.xhihition of 1891. A miniature
was sold at Puttick's in 1879, and one, possibly
the same, belongs to H. Barrett Lennard, Esq.
Two more are at "Windsor Castle. A pastel
caricature by Goupy is in the possession of Dr.
Cummings, and is the original of one of the
caricatures published in 1754. Many of the
above were exhibited at the Fishmongers' Hall
in 1904 ; an article on the portraits of Handel
appeared in vol. viii. of the Mago.zinc of Art, and
another in the Musical Times, special Handel
mimber, Dec. 14, 1893.]
The Vauxhall statue was copied liy Bartolozzi
for Dr. Arnold's edition of Handel's works, for
which Heath engraved an apotheosis for which
the portrait was taken from another picture
(said to be) by Hudson in Dr. Arnold 's possession.
The bust was copied by Chambers for Mainwaring's
Life of Hamlel ; and the monument,
by Delattre, for Burney's Co-mmeinoration.
Denner's picture was engraved by E. Harding
for the Aneaiotes of G. F. Handel and J. C.
Smith. Hudson's portrait at Gopsall was copied
in mezzotint and very badly, for Dr. Arnold's
edition, and again engraved by Thomjtson, and
others ; the picture belonging to the Royal
Society of Musicians was copied in mezzotint by
J. Faber in 1748, and again in 1749, the first
being now very rare. This was copied by Miller
(of Dublin) and Hardy, and in line by W. Bromley,
Sichling, and a host of minor artists. An
engraved portrait published by Breitkopf &
Hartel is also scarce. The picture by G. A.
"Wolfgang was engraved by J. G. Wolfgang at
Berlin, the name being spelled (in the first state)
HENDEL. A good profile, not improbably from
Mr. Morrison's bust, was attached to the wordbooks
of the Comniemoration of 1784, of which
the accompanying cut is a faithful copy, slightly
reduced. A curious but, probably, untrustworthy
lithograph was published at Vienna by
Kimike, representing Handel without a wig.
There is an unfinished jilate, supposed to bo
unique, which represents him holding a scroll
of music, and has a likeness to the pjortrait by
Denner ; and another, almost unique, ' Etch'd
by D. C. Read from a Picture by Hogarth in his
possession,' which is contemptible as a portrait
and as a work of art.
The best are the two prints by Faber and
Houbraken.
The complete list of his works is given
below, under the heading of Handel-Gesell-
SCHAFT. J. M.
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY. See
Boston Mu.sical Societies.
HANDEL, COMMEMORATION OF. Early
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