Thomas Worlidge - The English Rembrandt.
Frequently called the English Rembrandt, Thomas Worlidge (1700 – 1766), in his own day, was an artist of considerable status and international renown, yet by the early twentieth century he had been pretty well forgotten. However, a 1983 exhibition ‘Rembrandt in Eighteenth – Century England’ illuminated Worlidge as the subject of scholarly research, providing greater detail of his life and career, which had previously been neglected by other commentators. A more recent re-awakening of interest in Worlidge accompanies the growing popularity of Eighteenth – Century peintre – gravuers in general, and a return to critical favour of the genre. An unfinished self portrait. Ref: 32776 Born in Peterborough, Worlidge was the son of an eminent solicitor at law. At a young age, his mother had him instructed in drawing and apprenticed him to Genoese painter Allessandro Grimaldi, ‘famous for designing chandeliers and etching in gold or glass’. Grimaldi put Worlidge under the care of L...