George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composer

Location

Country: France
City: Strasbourg
Place: UK Delegation to Council of Europe

Francesco Bartolozzi was born in Italy. He became a pupil of the German painter and printmaker Joseph Wagner, then based in Venice. In 1764, he was invited to England by Frederick Augusta Barnard, King George III's Librarian. Although best known for copying Old Master drawings in the stipple technique (such as his reproductions of Guercino’s drawings in the Royal Collection), Bartolozzi also engraved plates after contemporary artists (notably Giovanni Battista Cipriani and Angelica Kauffmann). He set up a studio in London, which produced large numbers of ‘furniture prints’ (generally set within a roundel or oval and intended for framing). In 1802 he left England to become Director of the Lisbon Academy in Portugal.

People

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Places

Subjects

trumpet, lyre, composer, classical music, musician, male portrait, text-based work, Neo-Classicism, 18th century costume, wreath, standard, griffin, putto

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Giovanni Battista Cipriani ( - 1785)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)

Title

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composer

Date

after 1759

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

height: 39.70 cm, width: 29.60 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Grosvenor Prints, March 2001

Provenance

Grosvenor Prints, London

GAC number

17600