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portraits include Henrietta and Anne Churchill after is
inscribed'sold by P.van Somer in Newport Street', and more appropriate
to a Huguenot context, Israel Antoine Aufrere, which isiscribed 'D.en T.
Ministre de l'eglise Francoise de la Savoye a londres'. " Whereas the
engravings by Va.ndrebanc and van Somer closely follow their sources, it
is interesting to compare the engraved portraits by Simon Gribelin.
Two preparatory drawings by Gribelin for portr& t engravings survive
in the .Ashmolean Museum.
One is a drawing based on the portrait by Dahi of James 2nd Duke
of Ormonde(aatelk9)The engraving reproduces the oval drawing in
reverse but sets it in an allegorical surround which includes figures
representing Fame, Justice and Mars, and judging by the signature,'S.
Gribelin in et scuips' was designed by Gribelin(Ptte 150 ). In 1711,
Ormonde had succeeded John, 1st Duke of Montagu as Captain-General.0
The other drawing represents a more mysterious figure, it is inscribed,
'guill Trumbull agent pour lee Roy Jac I at Char I a la cour de Bruxelles'
(PIatel5l)who was in fact grandfather of the William Trumbull who was
ambassador to Paris 1685-6.°°
Possibly the most important of the portrait engravers of Huguenot
origin who settled in this country was Jean Simon who took up engraving
in mezzotint. Simon's earliest prints date from the middle of the reign of
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Queen Anne, when he was employed by Kneller who had fallen out with Smith,
Simon's engravings after Kneller include the portrait of Lord Somers,
Another early print is based on the ad vivum portrait by Arlaud of
Ezechial Spannheim who was ambassador from the Elector Palatine and the
Elector of Brandenburg to various courts md ding England, and in that
capacity rendered services to the Hugueriot re ugees on the Revocation.
Spannheim died in London on 28th October, 1710 and was buried in
Westminster Abbey°The inscription of the print describes Spanriheim as
Ambassador to Queen Anne in 1707, and was probably printed to announce
his arrival in London. Another subject attributed to Simon with
Huguenot connections is inscribed ' A Sketch of a Topeing meeting between
a Parson, a Burgher-masters Steward and a Poet, which all people that
know em, if they please may laugh at Drawn from the life at the House of
a famous Burgher Master' • One of the figures represented has been
identified as Thomas D'Urfey, who was born in Exeter of protestant parents
who had fled from La Rochelle before 1628, and as a playwright and
song writer frequented Knole, the Burgher Master's house referred to in