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Francesco Bartolozzi, September 25, 1725 in Florence- March 7 1815, was an Italian engraver,
whose most productive period was spent in London.

For nearly forty years he lived in London. He produced an enormous number of engravings. 
Bartolozzi also contributed a number of plates to Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.
He also drew sketches of his own in red chalk. Soon after arriving in London,
he was appointed engraver to the king with a salary of £300 a year.
He was elected a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768, and
in 1802 became the founding president of the short-lived Society of Engravers

Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings
and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving.
The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with
such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs.

	Holbein's Queen Anne (Boleyn)
	Holbein's Young Prince Edward (VI)
	An Unidentified Gentleman
	Phillip Hobbie, Knight
	William Parr, 1796

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