Works

Bockman was known as an artist in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

; he worked in England from the early part of the eighteenth century.

He painted several portraits of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and a life-size half-length of Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford

Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford

Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC was the First Lord of the Admiralty under King William III.-Naval career:...

. He copied after Godfrey Kneller

Godfrey Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I...

, and engraved portraits in mezzotint after Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

, Jacob van Loo

Jacob van Loo

Jacob van Loo was a Flemish painter who is considered one of the Dutch Masters of the 17th Century. Van Loo is known for his conversational groupings, his use of a subtle color palette and his nudes. He was the founder of the Van Loo family of painters.- Biography :Van Loo was born in Sluis,...

, Michael Dahl

Michael Dahl

Michael Dahl was a Swedish portrait painter, who lived and worked in London for the larger part of his life....

, James Worsdale

James Worsdale

James Worsdale was an Irish and English portrait painter, actor, literary fraud, and libertine whose lively conversation, wittiness, and boldness allowed him to move among the highest circles of literary life...

, and others. He painted and engraved (1743) a picture of St Dunstan holding the Devil by the nose with tongs. Karl Heinrich von Heinecken mentions amongst his portraits those of Thomas Chubb

Thomas Chubb

Thomas Chubb was an English lay Deist writer, born near Salisbury.Chubb regarded Christ as a divine teacher, but held reason to be sovereign in matters of religion, questioned religions' morality, yet was on rational grounds a defender of Christianity...

 the deist, of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, and of William Walker

William Walker

William Walker may refer to:* William Walker , sometime chief of the Wyandot Nation in Ohio and Kansas* William Walker * William Walker , an early governor of British Guiana...

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