Gerhard Bockman

Gerhard Bockman (1686–1773) was a Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver.

[1] Bockman was known as an artist in Amsterdam; by 1711, he was active in England, and was a subscriber of the Great Queen Street Academy.

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

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