(fl c. 1680–1724). English draughtsman, engraver and writer. He was probably related to the Luttrell family of Saunton Court, Devon; the tradition that he was born in Dublin is not substantiated. He apparently settled early in London and studied law, but abandoned it for art. He first turned to drawing for his own amusement but then, according to Bainbridge Buckeridge, received instruction in pastel portraiture (Luttrell’s speciality) from Edmund Ashfield; in his manuscript on techniques, An Epitome of Painting, Luttrell made favourable mention of his teacher. Luttrell’s portraits in pastels, which he sometimes mixed with gouache, are closely dependent on those by Ashfield but are distinguished by coarser handling and hot, reddish-brown flesh tones. He sometimes signed them with variants of his name, or with his initials in monogram. He made numerous copies after other artists, including Rembrandt and Otto van Veen, and his work for engravers includes some portraits of earlier kings and queens for ...