He created about 500 Mezzotints, some 300 copies of portrait paintings.
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The Mezzotint printmaking method was invented by the German
amateur artist Ludwig von Siegen(1609- c. 1680).
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His earliest Mezzotint print dates to 1642
and is a portrait of Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg.
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It requires a degree of expertise to distinguish engravings from prints using other techniques such as etching in particular, but also Mezzotint and other techniques.
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The popular taste in the
England of that time for such paintings was satisfied with Mezzotints, prints produced by a process that created an image
from thousands of tiny dots upon the page.