Sir Francis Buller (1746-1800) judge

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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

Sir Francis Buller (1746 - 1800)

Places

Subjects

quill, ink pot/ink stand, male portrait, wig, legal bands, judge, church, tower, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Mather Brown (1761 - 1831)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727 - 1815)

Title

Sir Francis Buller (1746-1800) judge

Date

1 March 1794

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Mrs Dorothy Lane, February 1958

GAC number

3999