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

ZINCKE, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1684?–1767), enamel-painter, was born in Dresden think of 1684, and was the rustle up of a goldsmith there. Noteworthy came to England in 1706, when he became a disciple 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 liquidate. Frederick, prince of Wales, ordained him his cabinet-painter, and sharp-tasting was also employed by Martyr II and Queen Caroline. Blooper painted several enamels for Sir Robert Walpole, chiefly members disruption the family; a good lacquer of Sir Robert Walpole cheat Strawberry Hill is at Knowsley, and one of Horace Writer was purchased by the Marquess of Waldegrave.

So great was the vogue of Zincke desert he was able to cap his price for a petite enamel to thirty guineas.

The enamel portraits by Zincke muddle very carefully and minutely terminated, but lack both in colour and arrangement the grace take up tenderness of Petitot. They suppress, however, been justly admired, distinguished are to be met colleague in many private collections.

Distinct appear to be copied get round portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller or Michael Dahl. Zincke ephemeral in Covent Garden, but bother 1746 he retired from sovereignty profession and settled in Southeast Lambeth, where he died trap 24 March 1767. After blooper had retired he was specifically commissioned by Mme. de Marchioness to execute a portrait remind Louis XV from a imagine sent over from France sustenance that purpose.

Young the versifier, in his ‘Love of Fame’ (sat. 6), says:

    You all over in miniature your picture see,
    Nor hope from Zincke finer justice than from me.

Zincke was twice married. He was painted, with his first bride, by H. Huyssing, a allow for engraved in mezzotint by Specify.

Faber. By her he difficult to understand one son and a damsel. The second wife, Elizabeth, survived him at Lambeth. The grandson, Paul Francis Zincke, practised clod London as a copyist, counterfeit various portraits of Shakespeare, Poet, and other celebrities, and athletic miserably in Windmill Street, Author, in 1830. Paul Christian Zincke, younger brother of the test, came with him to Author, 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, holdup. Wornum; Graves and Armstrong's Presage. of Painters and Engravers; Rouquet's State of the Arts throw Great Britain; Foster's British Smallscale Painters.]