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This medium is more durable than paper. Although these portraits were called 'plumbagos', meaning black lead, they were usually drawn in graphite and sometimes in ink. This portrait is done in graphite. ‘Plumbagos' developed in the Netherlands in the late 16th century within the print trade. They developed from the printmakers’ original drawings on paper, from which a print would have been engraved. 'Plumbagos' were introduced into England when the monarchy was restored in 1660, by printmakers who returned home from exile abroad. As the taste for 'plumbagos' became established, artists who were not printmakers also began to produce them.\r\n\r\nDavid Loggan was born in the Baltic port of Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland) of Scottish descent. He came to England in 1658, two years before the restoration of the monarchy. He thus became one of the earliest practitioners in England of 'plumbago'. 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