Sir James Hall of Dunglass
Sir James Hall of Dunglass (1761–1832), Geologist c1785 by Swedish Painter Angelica Kauffman (1741 – 1807); liksom en målare, en av grundarna av Royal Academy och känd för att ha populariserat kritmetoden för gravering.
A attention grabbing porträtt of a young Sir Hall 4th Baronet FRS FRSE; who was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist and Member of Parliament for St. Michael’s borough 1807–1812.
He is wearing a white collar and shirt with a burgundy top coat with large silver buttons on both sides of the lapels; with the coat tied off with one button; posing against a plain greenish, yellow and red hued wall.
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Bartolozzi föddes i Florens, och som dåtidens sed var, man trodde att han skulle gå i sin fars fotspår och bli guld- och silversmed.
Detta skulle dock förändras eftersom den unge Bartolozzi visade en hel del skicklighet och smak i design; som ett resultat sattes han således under överinseende av två florentinska konstnärer, inklusive den italienske målaren Ignazio Hugford (1703 – 1778) och italiensk rokokostilmålare Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692 – 1768) som instruerade honom i målning.
After three years of art training, he went to Venice to study engraving; and spent six years working for German Engraver and Draughtsman Joseph Wagner (1706 – 1780), en graverare och tryckare, innan han startade sin egen verkstad.
The first engraving Bartolozzi produced in Venice were plates in the style of Italian Baroque Period Painter Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730) and Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (1702 – 1788) a Late Baroque or Rococo Period Landscape Painter.
Sedan i 1762 Bartolozzi moved to Rome for a short period of time, where he completed a set of engravings representing frescoes at Grottaferrata by Italian Baroque Painter Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri 1581 – 1641) depicting the life of St Nilus.
That set of engravings and his etchings of old master’s works, began to draw public attention throughout Europe; och i 1763 han träffade Richard Dalton (1715 – 1791), draughtsman, engraver and the English Royal Librarian who was traveling in Italy looking for acquisitions for King George III art collection.
Dalton offered him an appointment as Engraver to the King; which Bartolozzi accepted and left for London in 1764; where he lived for 42 år.
During his time in London he produced a large number of engravings, which included Clytie after Italian Painter Annibale Carracci (1560 – 1609), and of the Virgin and Child, after Italian Baroque Painter Carlo Dolci (1616/7 – 1686).
A large proportion of them are from the works of Italian Painter Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727 – 1785) and British Painter Angelica Kauffman (1741 – 1807). Bartolozzi bidrog också med ett antal tallrikar till Boydells Shakespeare Gallery.