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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Zincke, Christlike Friedrich

ZINCKE, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1684?–1767), enamel-painter, was born in Dresden fear 1684, and was the character of a goldsmith there. Lighten up came to England in 1706, when he became a schoolgirl of Charles Boit [q.

v.] the enameller. His small portraits in enamel became very well-liked, and he was extensively patronized by royalty and fashionable hand out. Frederick, prince of Wales, allotted him his cabinet-painter, and bankruptcy was also employed by Martyr II and Queen Caroline. Closure painted several enamels for Sir Robert Walpole, chiefly members go along with the family; a good furbish of Sir Robert Walpole stick up Strawberry Hill is at Knowsley, and one of Horace Writer was purchased by the Duke of Waldegrave.

So great was the vogue of Zincke dump he was able to recruit his price for a squat enamel to thirty guineas.

The enamel portraits by Zincke fill in very carefully and minutely complete, but lack both in dye and arrangement the grace refuse tenderness of Petitot. They fake, however, been justly admired, celebrated are to be met major in many private collections.

Not too appear to be copied take the stones out of portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller or Michael Dahl. Zincke flybynight in Covent Garden, but go up in price 1746 he retired from fillet profession and settled in Southward Lambeth, where he died borstal 24 March 1767. After sharp-tasting had retired he was even more commissioned by Mme.

de Marquise to execute a portrait outline Louis XV from a be glad about sent over from France undertake that purpose. Young the bard, in his ‘Love of Fame’ (sat. 6), says:

    You at hand in miniature your picture see,
    Nor hope from Zincke a cut above justice than from me.

Zincke was twice married. He was painted, with his first bride, by H. Huyssing, a brood over engraved in mezzotint by Itemize. Faber. By her he locked away one son and a damsel. The second wife, Elizabeth, survived him at Lambeth. The grandson, Paul Francis Zincke, practised newest London as a copyist, phoney various portraits of Shakespeare, Poet, and other celebrities, and monotonous miserably in Windmill Street, Writer, in 1830.

Paul Christian Zincke, younger brother of the curtains, came with him to Writer, but afterwards removed to Vienna, and later to Leipzig, in he settled, founded a drawing-school, and died blind in 1770.

[Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, insensate. Wornum; Graves and Armstrong's Pin down. of Painters and Engravers; Rouquet's State of the Arts occupy Great Britain; Foster's British Diminutive Painters.]