Bartolozzi Francesco

Francesco Bartolozzi (Florence 1727 – 1815 Lisbon) was an Italian painter and engraver who worked mainly in England. He attended the Accademia in Florence, where Giovanni Domenico Ferretti and Ignazio Hugford taught him drawing and painting. Here he formed a lifelong friendship with the painter and engraver Giovanni Battista Cipriani, of whose work he made numerous engravings. Although Bartolozzi was a skilled miniature painter, who also worked in pastel and watercolour, he soon devoted himself to engraving. From 1745 to 1751 he studied with the Venetian engraver Joseph Wagner. His fame grew rapidly and in 1764, at the invitation of the librarian of King George III, he left for England, where he was soon appointed official engraver to the court and became a co-founder and member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Bartolozzi was very productive and produced thousands of works. He often used the stippling technique developed in France and was able to perfect it in his own way and improve the reproduction of the works. He excelled in the representation of human anatomy. In 1802 he left for Lisbon, where he became director of the local academy. (Wikipedia)