George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) composer

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

Engraving

after 1759

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: France
    City: Strasbourg
    Place: UK Delegation to Council of Europe
  • About the artist
    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.
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    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