Location

Country: USA
City: Boston
Place: British Consulate-General

London-born engraver James Fittler exhibited two sketches at the Free Society of Artists, aged 17. He studied engraving at the Royal Academy Schools from 21 and exhibited there between 1788 and 1824, becoming an associate in 1800. He was later appointed marine engraver to George III. He contributed to Boydell’s ‘Shakespeare Gallery’ and co-published ‘Views of Weymouth’ (1790-91) and (with Robert Bowyer) an illustrated bible (1795), losing some £1500 in the later venture. He published engravings for John Claude Nattes's ‘Scotia Depicta’ (1804) and made reproductions of Raphael's ‘Cartoons’ (1810). His last published works illustrated Thomas Frognall Dibdin's ‘Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp’ (1822). He died aged 77.

People

West, Benjamin

Places

Subjects

painter, artist (as Subject), painting (as Subject), book (as subject), male portrait, 19th century costume, spectacles

Materials & Techniques

chine collé, engraving

Artist

George Henry Harlow (1787 - 1819)
James Fittler (1758 - 1835)

Title

Benjamin West (1738-1820) artist

Date

published 8 April 1817

Medium

Engraving with chine collé

Acquisition

Purchased from Grosvenor Prints, May 2002

Provenance

With Grosvenor Prints, London; from whom purchased by the Government Art Collection in May 2002

GAC number

17712