Charles d'Agar

Charles d'Agar^{[lower-alpha 1]} (1669–1723) was a French^[5] portrait painter, the son of Jacques d'Agar. Active in England for much of his life, he is most known for portraits made during the Late Stuart and Early Georgian eras.

Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness, before 1721, oil on canvas, 125.1 by 101 cm, private collection

D'Agar came to England with his father in 1681. He primarily painted portraits on commission for patrons such as the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Bolingbroke.^[6] Some of his works can be found at Nunnington Hall.

Notes

1. The spelling d'Agar^[1] is commonly present in bibliography including reference books.^[2] Although, variant spellings are also known in 17th-century and 18th-century sources, such as Dagar,^[3] de Garr,^[4] and others.

References

1. For example, see Vertue 1930, p. 116; Vertue 1934, p. 15.
2. Stein 1907, p. 112; Du Bus 1933, col. 685; Bénézit 2006, p. 148; AKL, Bd. 1 1992; Brême 1996, p. 449; Marciari Alexander 2004, p. 904.
3. Lespinasse 1927, pp. 241, 245; Vertue 1930, p. 126; Whinney & Millar 1957, p. 199.
4. Cited in Waterhouse 1978, p. 345.
5. Stein 1907, p. 112, and Bénézit 2006, p. 148, describe d'Agar as a French painter. Alternately, Marciari Alexander 2004, p. 904, says that "[d'Agar's] œuvre was clearly of more consequence to English art than that of his father."
6. "Charles d'Agar Brief Bio". Archived from the original on 2014-07-17. Retrieved 2013-01-22.

Further reading

Contemporary accounts

• Vertue, George (1930). "The Note-Books of George Vertue Relating to Artists and Collections in England (I)". The Walpole Society. 18. p. 83, 116, 126–127. JSTOR i40086539.
• Vertue, George (1934). "The Note-Books of George Vertue Relating to Artists and Collections in England (III)". The Walpole Society. 22. p. 1, 4, 15. JSTOR i40086509.

Scholarly notes

• Dussieux, Louis (1876). Les artistes français à l'étranger (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris, Lyon: Lecoffre. pp. 72, 275–276, 348. OCLC 986071909 – via the Internet Archive.
• Lespinasse, P. (April 1927). "Jacques d'Agar: portraitiste des rois de Danemark". Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French). 5 (15): 241–249 – via Gallica.
• Smith, John Chaloner (1878–1884). British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: H. Sotheran. pt. 1, pp. 325, 406; pt. 3, pp. 1076, 1104, 1117, 1119, 1155, 1213, 1234; pt. 4, pp. 1581–1582. OCLC 1041598596 – via the Internet Archive.
• Stewart, John Douglas (1983). Sir Godfrey Kneller and the English Baroque Portrait. Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 75, 190. ISBN 0-19-817356-3. LCCN 82014249. OCLC 461761506 – via the Internet Archive.
• Walpole, Horace (1879). Anecdotes Of Painting In England. London: Ward, Lock, and Co. p. 322. OCLC 1039484687 – via the Internet Archive.
• Waterhouse, Ellis K. (1978) [1953]. Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790. The Pelican History of Art (4th ed.). Harmondsworth, England; New York: Penguin Books. p. 345. ISBN 0-14-056101-3. LCCN 77019107. OCLC 1245624144 – via the Internet Archive.
• Whinney, Margaret; Millar, Oliver (1957). English Art, 1625–1714. Oxford History of English Art. Vol. 8. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 199. OCLC 1150992276 – via the Internet Archive.

Reference books

• Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [originally published in French in 1911]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 1. Paris: Gründ. p. 148. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2 – via the Internet Archive.
• Brême, Dominique (1996). "Agar, Jacques d'". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 1. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 449. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. LCCN 96013628. OCLC 1033664924 – via the Internet Archive.
• Du Bus, Charles (1933). "Agar (Charles d')". In Balteau, Jules; Barroux, Marius; and Prevost, Michel (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. col. 685. OCLC 492149976.
• Kasten, Eberhard; et al., eds. (1992). "Agar, Charles d'". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 1. München, Leipzig: Saur. p. 493. ISBN 3-598-22741-8. OCLC 30486478.
• Marciari Alexander, Julia (2004). "D'Agar, Charles". In Matthew, H. C. G. & Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861364-4. LCCN 2004005444. OCLC 1035759463 – via the Internet Archive.
• Redgrave, Samuel (1878). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (2nd ed.). London: George Bell. p. 111. OCLC 1043009709 – via the Internet Archive.
• Stein, Henri [in French] (1907). "Agar, Charles d'". In Thieme, Ulrich and Becker, Felix (eds.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. p. 112. OCLC 1292069254 – via the Internet Archive.
• Stewart, Brian and Cutten, Mervyn (1997). The Dictionary of British Portrait Painters, Up to 1920. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 157. ISBN 1-85149-173-2. LCCN 97-121593. OCLC 1114073952 – via the Internet Archive.
• Waterhouse, Ellis K. (1988). The Dictionary of 16th & 17th Century British Painters. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 65. ISBN 1-851-49036-1. LCCN 89-214208. OCLC 22345566 – via the Internet Archive.