Lady Smith and her Children
Lady Smith and her Children March 15, 1789 by Italian Engraver Francesco Bartolozzi (1728 – 1815) from a painting British Painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792)
This engraved family portrait 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 agus 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. Bhí sé i ndán dó ar dtús gairm a athar a leanúint, ór- agus gabha airgid, ach léirigh sé an oiread sin scile agus blas sa dearadh gur cuireadh faoi mhaoirseacht beirt ealaíontóirí Florentine é, ina measc Ignazio Hugford agus Giovanni Domenico Ferretti a thug treoir dó sa phéinteáil.
Tar éis trí bliana a chaitheamh leis an ealaín sin, chuaigh sé go dtí an Veinéis agus rinne sé staidéar ar engraving. Chaith sé sé bliana ann ag obair do Joseph Wagner, greanadóir agus díoltóir priontaí, roimh a cheardlann féin a chur ar bun.
Ba é a chéad léirithe sa Veinéis plátaí i stíl Marco Ricci, Zuccarelli. Bhog sé ansin ar feadh tamaill ghairid isteach 1762 go dtí an Róimh, áit ar chríochnaigh sé sraith greanta a léirigh frescoes ag Grottaferrata le Domenichino a thaispeánann saol Naomh Nilus. Iad siúd agus a eitseáil de shaothair an tSean-mháistir, began to draw attention throughout Europe.
I 1763 he met Richard Dalton, the English Royal Librarian who was traveling in Italy looking for acquisitions for the King’s collections. Dalton offered him an appointment as Engraver to the King; 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, and of the Virgin and Child, after Carlo Dolci.
A large proportion of them are from the works of Cipriani and Angelica Kauffman. Bartolozzi also contributed a number of plates to Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery.
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.
Toghadh é ina bhall bunaithe den Acadamh Ríoga. Chuir fodhlíthe an Acadaimh nua greanadóirí as an áireamh go sonrach ach bhí an oiread sin meas ar Bartolozzi gur tugadh isteach é mar Acadóir sa chatagóir Péintéir.. I 1802 bhí sé ina Uachtarán bunaidh ar Chumann na Engravers gearrthéarmach.
Cé nárbh é Bartolozzi an bun-aireagóir ar an modh greanta crián, tháinig sé ina léiritheoir ceannasach go “stipple” modh agus bhain sé leis. Leis an teicníc sin cruthaítear íomhánna le poncanna íogaire seachas línte mar atá in eitseáil nó engravings traidisiúnta. Chuir Bartolozzi idirdhealú lena chuid oibre trí úsáid a bhaint as dearg (sanguine), dúigh oráiste agus donn seachas dúch coitianta dubh.
Mar a d'fhás a feiceálacht, ghlac sé le mic léinn lena n-áirítear 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.