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Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)
St Matthew and the Angel before 1764
Red chalk | 27.8 x 40.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 902516
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)
St Matthew and the Angel before 1764
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A drawing by Bartolozzi after a drawing by Guercino. A large collection of works by Guercino was acquired by George III, but others were retained by the artist's family in Bologna, where they were copied by Bartolozzi. Inventory A, c.1810, notes that this is one of the latter group. Engraved by Bartolozzi, and included among his prints after drawings in the Royal Collection, published by Boydell in the 1790s.
The Italian engraver and draughtsman Francesco Bartolozzi met the Royal Librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, who was in Italy to find works to buy for George III's collection. Dalton persuaded him to come to England in 1764, where he was appointed Engraver to The King and became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. Over the next forty years Bartolozzi was widely admired for the prints he made after drawings by Guercino, Holbein and Michelangelo in the Royal Collection, his engravings after his contemporaries Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Benjamin West and Angelika Kauffmann, and the prints he made for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. He was also known as the leading exponent of the stipple manner technique, often using brown, red and ochre coloured inks.Provenance
Acquired by George III. Royal Collection by c.1810.
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Medium and techniques
Red chalk
Measurements
27.8 x 40.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 2516
