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ID: 500017941
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017941
 
Record Type: Person
Lens, Bernard, II (English printmaker, 1659-1725)

Note: Bernard Lens II ran one of the first drawing schools in England with John Sturt from 1697 until after 1710; it was located in St. Paul's Churchyard in London. In 1705 he started teaching navigational drawing skills to boys destined for careers at sea at the nearby Christ's Hospital boys' charity school. His son Edward (1685-1749) took over the position after his death. Comment on works: printmaker; graphic artist

Names:
Lens, Bernard, II (preferred,V,index)
Bernard Lens II (V,display)
Lens, Bernard II (V)
Lens, Bernhard, the elder (V)
Lens, Bernhard II (V)
Bernard II Lens (V)
Lans, Bernard (V)
Lense, Bernard (V)
Lentz, Bernard (V)
Lens, Bernard (II) (U,Dutch-P,NA)
Bernard Lens senior (LU,U)
B. Lens sen. (LU,U)
Old Lens (LU,U)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English
South Netherlandish

Roles:
artist (preferred)
printmaker
draftsman
teacher
engraver (printmaker)
mezzotinter
painter

Gender: male

Events:
active:   London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Lens, Bernard, I  
..............  (English painter and writer, 1631-1725) [500018961]
grandparent of ....  Lens, Andrew Benjamin  
..........................  (English draftsman, ca. 1713-after 1779) [500031130]
grandparent of ....  Lens, Peter Paul  
..........................  (British painter, ca. 1714-ca. 1754) [500009789]
member of ....  Lens family  
................  (English family of artists, active 17th and 18th century) [500120867]
parent of ....  Lens, Bernard, III  
................  (English painter, 1681-1740) [500023739]
parent of ....  Lens, Edward  
................  (English draftsman, teacher, 1685-1749) [500120868]
worked with ....  Sturt, John  
....................  (English engraver, 1658-1730) [500015476]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Lens, Bernard, II (I)

Biographies:
(English printmaker, 1659-1725) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(British artist, 1659-1725) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, 1659-1725) ..... [WCP]
(British, 1659-1725) ..... [GRLPA]
(British artist, 1659-1725) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(English printmaker, draftsman, and teacher, 1659-1725) ..... [VP]
(British artist, 1659/60-1725) ..... [PROV]
(South Netherlandish engraver (printmaker), 1659-1725) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Bernard II Lens ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Bernard Lens II ........ [VP]
................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Bernard Lens senior ........ [PROV]
......................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
B. Lens sen. ........ [PROV]
........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Lans, Bernard ........ [VP]
............................  Grove Art Online (2008-)
Lens, Bernard II ........ [BHA Preferred, VP, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..................................  Witt Computer Index database
..................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Lens, Bernard, II ........ [VP Preferred, WCP Preferred]
....................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
Lens, Bernard (II) ........ [RKD Preferred]
......................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 49389
Lens, Bernhard II ........ [GRLPA Preferred]
....................................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
Lens, Bernhard, the elder ........ [VP]
................................................  Getty Research Library Photo Archive database
Lense, Bernard ........ [VP]
..............................  Grove Art Online (2008-)
Lentz, Bernard ........ [VP]
..............................  Grove Art Online (2008-)
Old Lens ........ [PROV]
..................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRLPA, PROV, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  DNB: Oxford National Biography, 1912-1921 (1927)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85196332
....................  Getty Research Library Photo Archive database
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 29 Apr 2004
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85196332
....................  Metropolitan Museum Journal 6 (1972)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 49389
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q4893364
....................  Witt Computer Index database
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 29 Apr 2004
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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