Charles Jervas
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Charles Jervas was an Irish painter, translator, and art collector of the early 18th century.
Self-portrait, c. 1725
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (c. 1700)
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1707)
Jonathan Swift (1710)
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput
Charles Jervas
…to London in 1709 where he found success as a portrait painter. Painting portraits of the city's intellectuals, among them such personal friends as Jonathan Swift and the poet Alexander Pope (both now in the National Portrait Gallery, London), Jervas became a popular artist often referred to in the works of…
The house in which Swift was born; 1865 illustration
Jonathan Swift in 1682, by Thomas Pooley. The artist had married into the Swift family.
Jonathan Swift (shown without wig) by Rupert Barber, 1745, National Portrait Gallery, London