Sir Paul Pindar
Portrait Print
1794 (printed)
1794 (printed)
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| Place of origin |
Sir Paul Pindar (ca 1565-1650) was a merchant and diplomat. He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and educated at Wellingborough Grammar School. Pindar initially entered the trade as the apprentice to an Italian merchant in London who sent him to Venice in 1584 at the age of eighteen. He was later involved in trade with the Ottoman Empire. He eventually became secretary to the English ambassador in Constantinople, Henry Lello and later ambassador himself. During this period he amassed a great fortune which enabled him to build for himself a fine mansion in Bishopgate Street Without, London just beyond the City walls. The facade of this house was given to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1890 when the Great Eastern Railway enlarged the site of Liverpool Street Station and demolished the building. The facade is one of the largest objects in the Museum and is an extremely rare survival of a London timber-framed house built before the Great Fire of London in 1666.
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| Title | Sir Paul Pindar (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Engraving on paper |
| Brief description | Engaved portrait of Sir Paul Pindar by Thomas Trotter after an anonymous painting of 1614; 1794 |
| Physical description | Portrait of Sir Paul Pindar half-length facing front |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Sir Paul Pindar..Anno 1614. Constantinopoli |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Anne Geraldine Hill |
| Object history | The complete engraving also shows a portrait of Ralph Pindar, brother of Sir Paul Pindar, at the age of 31, from a portrait also painted in Constantinople in 1614. An impression of that part of the engraving showing Ralph Pindar alone is E.3805-1934. |
| Production | After an anonymous original painted in 1614 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Sir Paul Pindar (ca 1565-1650) was a merchant and diplomat. He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and educated at Wellingborough Grammar School. Pindar initially entered the trade as the apprentice to an Italian merchant in London who sent him to Venice in 1584 at the age of eighteen. He was later involved in trade with the Ottoman Empire. He eventually became secretary to the English ambassador in Constantinople, Henry Lello and later ambassador himself. During this period he amassed a great fortune which enabled him to build for himself a fine mansion in Bishopgate Street Without, London just beyond the City walls. The facade of this house was given to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1890 when the Great Eastern Railway enlarged the site of Liverpool Street Station and demolished the building. The facade is one of the largest objects in the Museum and is an extremely rare survival of a London timber-framed house built before the Great Fire of London in 1666. |
| Associated object | E.3805-1934 (Part) |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1943, London: HMSO, 1956. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.430-1943 |
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| Record created | July 2, 2008 |
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