Lot Essay
Robert White, a pupil of David Loggan, specialized in miniature portrait drawings, over four hundred of which were engraved; he drew most of the public and literary characters of his day. White engraved many bookplates and in 1674 engraved the first Oxford Almanac. Ten of White's drawings are in the Huntingdon Library, California, and there are thirteen in the British Museum. Of the nine portraits in lot , four have been identified from White's engravings.
John Blow (1648-1708), the composer, and the diarist recorded '... but not withstanding their skill, yet to hear them sing with their broken voices, which they could not command to keep in tune, would make a man mad, so bad it was'. At 21 Blow was organist of Westminster Abbey and at 28 was organist to the Chapel Royal. Blow's pupil, Henry Purcell, succeeded him at Westminster in 1680. In 1685 Blow became Composer in Ordinary to James II and was Master of Choristers at St. Paul's from 1687 to 1693. Blow was buried in Westminster Abbey in October 1708.
Elias Keach (c. 1665-1699/1701), a baptist divine, founded two churches in Pennsylvania. He was a pastor ar Wapping and at Goodman's Fields.
Thomas Manton (1620-1677), a Presbyterian divine, entered Wadham College, Oxford in 1635. He preached six times to the Long Parliament and in 1656 became rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, where Evelyn worshipped. In July 1660 Keach was one of twelve Chaplains to the King. His health failed in 1675, two years before his death.
William Salmon (1644-1713), an empiric, published the first prophetic almanac in 1684
John Blow (1648-1708), the composer, and the diarist recorded '... but not withstanding their skill, yet to hear them sing with their broken voices, which they could not command to keep in tune, would make a man mad, so bad it was'. At 21 Blow was organist of Westminster Abbey and at 28 was organist to the Chapel Royal. Blow's pupil, Henry Purcell, succeeded him at Westminster in 1680. In 1685 Blow became Composer in Ordinary to James II and was Master of Choristers at St. Paul's from 1687 to 1693. Blow was buried in Westminster Abbey in October 1708.
Elias Keach (c. 1665-1699/1701), a baptist divine, founded two churches in Pennsylvania. He was a pastor ar Wapping and at Goodman's Fields.
Thomas Manton (1620-1677), a Presbyterian divine, entered Wadham College, Oxford in 1635. He preached six times to the Long Parliament and in 1656 became rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, where Evelyn worshipped. In July 1660 Keach was one of twelve Chaplains to the King. His health failed in 1675, two years before his death.
William Salmon (1644-1713), an empiric, published the first prophetic almanac in 1684