Brief Biography-Henri Gascar was a Parisian portraitist born in 1635. He spent time in Rome before going to England in 1674 and enjoyed a career under the Duchess of Portsmouth’s patronage and prospered painting portraits of nobility. He returned to Paris in 1680, where the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture admitted him that year. Gascar eventually settled in Rome, where he worked for the remainder of his life. Mezzotints by him were engraved just before he died in 1701. His most famous painting is of the Duke of York before becoming James II of England.