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Robert Ker Porter

1777

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Sir Robert Ker Porter, KCH was a British artist, writer and diplomat. Known today for his accounts of his travels in Russia, Spain, Portugal and Persia, he was one of the earliest panorama painters in Britain, was appointed historical painter to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and served as British consul in Venezuela.

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Artworks (2)

Charge, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

1803 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in gray on cream wove paper

Image/primary support: 22.2 × 32.1 cm (8 3/4 × 12 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 37.5 × 49 cm (14 13/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fighting Knights Before Castle

1795 · Pen and orange-red ink, with brush and gray wash, graphite, and traces of red chalk, on cream wove paper, squared in graphite

20.7 × 24 cm (8 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

Fighting Knights Before Castle (c. 1800)

Art Institute of Chicago

Charge, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography (1803)

Art Institute of Chicago

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