On Plaster
Goëthe (1749-1832). German poet. Cut the silhouette of Fritz von Stein and others, now in the Goëthe Museum at Weimar.
Gonard (1784), Paris. At the Palais Royale cut paper and painted; used elaborate printed mounts. His address in 1788 was Palais Royale, under arch No. 167, at the side of Rue des Bons Enfants. Here his studio was so frequented that a special lantern, decorated with silhouettes, was used at night, that carriages and chairs might draw up for the convenience of his aristocratic sitters. [XXII.]
Graff, A. Born 1736, died 1813. Portrait profilist, German.
Graff. Described as “Portraitist.”
Grape (1793), Göttingen. Signature on silhouette portraits in the fifth volume of Annalen der theologischen Literatur in Kirchengeschichte (see Bibliography).
Grassmeyer. Signature on cut silhouette in engraved mount.
Haines, E. Worked on the Chain Pier, Brighton, 1850. Label on a man’s full-length portrait from the collection of Mr. Montague J. Guest, now belonging to the author: “Profilist and Scissorgraphist, patronised by the Royal Family, most respectfully informs the nobility and gentry, and visitors of Brighton, that he continues to execute the peculiar art of cutting profile likenesses in one minute with the aid of scissors only, so as to equal any yet produced by the most accurate machine. Terms: Full-length portrait, 2s. 6d.; ditto bronzed, or two of one person, 4s.; bust, 1s., or two of one person, 1s. 6d. Portraits of many interesting living characters may be seen at the first left-hand tower on the Chain Pier. Families attended at their own residences without additional charge. Proprietor of original weighing machine.” Bishop, writing of the Brighton Chain Pier in 1897, writes of the old tower keeper, Mr. Haynes, a skilful silhouette cutter, “was very deaf, and his invariable reply to any question was ‘1s. 6d. head and shoulders; 2s. 6d. full length.’” [XXXI.]
Hamlet (1779-1808). Label on a portrait painted on glass of His Serene Highness Count Beaujolais, brother to Louis Philippe of Orleans, afterwards King of France, “done for the Parry family, Bath, April, 1807.” His addresses are 12, Union Street, on a portrait of Princess Sophia in the Wellesley collection, and 17, Union Passage.