Four Women with a Child

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

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.

Places

Subjects

genre, boy, baby, woman, scarf, child

Materials & Techniques

etching

Artist

Guercino (1591 - 1666)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)

Title

Four Women with a Child

Date

1764

Medium

Etching

Acquisition

Purchased from Robin Eden, Corsham, February 1953

GAC number

2040