Bartholomew Dandridge (artist)

He had a career as a fashionable portrait painter in London for more than forty years,[2] working in a style similar to that of John Vanderbank.

[3] In 1732, he was commissioned by Lord Barington to paint a portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales on horseback,[2] now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery but on loan to Spencer House.

In 1733, he moved to 55, Great Queen Street, which had formed part of the house of Sir Godfrey Kneller until his death two years before.

[4] He played a part in the development of the conversation piece, making groups of model figures to judge effects of light and shade.

[2] The collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum includes a Portrait of a Painter by Dandridge; this may be the self-portrait he is recorded as having painted in 1729, although the identification of the subject is not certain.