Portrait of Jonathan 'Isaac Bickerstaff' Swift (1667-1745), seated bust-length, in a blue coat

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After Charles Jervas (1675-1739)
Portrait of Jonathan 'Isaac Bickerstaff' Swift (1667-1745), seated bust-length, in a blue coat
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)
After the picture in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Lot Essay

Jonathan Swift, also known as Isaac Bickerstaff, is famed as the foremost satirist of the English language. Besides the celebrated novel Gulliver's Travels (1726), he wrote such shorter works as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and A Modest Proposal (1729).

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