Lady Smith ja hänen lapsensa
Lady Smith ja hänen lapsensa March 15, 1789 italialainen kaivertaja Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 – 1815) maalauksesta brittimaalari Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792)
Tämä kaiverrettu perhekuva of Lady Charlotte Sophia Smith and her children; George Henry, Louisa, and Charlotte is from a painting done by British Painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.
It shows the family in a garden setting with Lady Smith looking yonder while the two older girls maybe around 5 ja 7 years of age playfully carry their younger brother who may be about three.
Lady Smith and her Children is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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Bartolozzi was born in Florence in 1727. He was originally destined to follow the profession of his father, a gold- and silver-smith, but he manifested so much skill and taste in designing that he was placed under the supervision of two Florentine artists, including Ignazio Hugford and Giovanni Domenico Ferretti who instructed him in painting.
After devoting three years to that art, he went to Venice and studied engraving. He spent six years there working for Joseph Wagner, kaivertaja ja printtimyyjä, ennen oman työpajan perustamista.
His first productions in Venice were plates in the style of Marco Ricci, Zuccarelli. He then moved for a short time in 1762 to Rome, where he completed a set of engravings representing frescoes at Grottaferrata by Domenichino depicting the life of St Nilus. Those and his etchings of Old Master’s works, began to draw attention throughout Europe.
Sisään 1763 hän tapasi Richard Daltonin, the English Royal Librarian who was traveling in Italy looking for acquisitions for the King’s collections. Dalton tarjosi hänelle nimityksen kaivertajaksi kuninkaalle; Bartolozzi accepted and left for London in 1764.
Bartolozzi lived in London for nearly forty years. He produced an enormous number of engravings, including Clytie after Annibale Carracci, ja Neitsyt ja lapsi, after Carlo Dolci.
A large proportion of them are from the works of Cipriani and Angelica Kauffman. Bartolozzi antoi myös useita levyjä Boydellin Shakespearen galleriaan.
He also drew sketches of his own in red chalk. Soon after arriving in London, he was appointed ‘Engraver to the King’ (George III) with an annual salary of £300.
He was elected a founding member of the Royal Academy. The new Academy’s bylaws specifically excluded engravers but Bartolozzi was so well esteemed that he was brought in as an Academician in the category of Painter. Sisään 1802 became the founding President of the short-lived Society of Engravers.
While Bartolozzi was not the original inventor of the crayon manner of engraving, he became a leading exponent that “stipple” method and it became associated with him. With that technique images are created by delicate dots rather than lines as in traditional etchings or engravings. Bartolozzi added distinction to his work by using red (sanguine), orange and brown inks rather than common black ink.
As his prominence grew, he took on students including Michele Benedetti, Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe, Thomas Cheesman, Lambertus Antonius Claessens, Daniel Gardner, Christiaan Josi, Johan Fredrik Martin, Conrad Martin Metz, Luigi Schiavonetti, John Keyse Sherwin, Heinrich Sintzenich, Peltro William Tomkins, Domenico Bernardo Zilotti, and Gavriil Skorodumov.