PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
BARTOLOMMEO di TOMMASO was a painter
who flouriahed in the early part of the 15th century,
and was of Umbro-Sienese education. He painted
a 'Virgin and Saints,' in 1430, for the church of
San Salvadore, at Foh'gno. There also exist other
paintings by him in the churches of that city.
BARTOLOMMEO, Nerboccio di. See De'Landi.
BARTOLOMMEO VENEZIANO. See Venezi- AXO, Bariolommeo.
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco, a celebrated en- graver, was the son of a goldsmith of Florence, where he was born in 1725. He was instructed in drawing by Ferretti at Florence, and learned the art of engraving from Joseph Wagner at Venice. His first productions were some plates after Marco Ricci, Zuccarelli, and others, engraved whilst he was in the employment of Wagner. But the theatre destined for the display of his talents was England, where he arrived in 1764. Soon after, he was appointed engraver to the king with a salary of £300 a year, and in 1768 he was made a Royal Academician. Few artists have reached so distinguished a rank in their profession as Bartolozzi, and that in every species of engraving. His etchings, in imitation of the drawings of the most eminent painters, admirably represent the spirit of the originals, and he was not less Buccessful in the exquisitely finished plates he produced in the various styles he practised. In 1802 Bartolozzi accepted the post of director of the National Academy of Lisbon, where he died in 1815. Indefatigable in the exercise of his art, Bartolozzi has left us a prodigious number of plates, and the only embarrassment we experience is in selecting as copious a list of his works as our limits will permit, without omitting many others quite worthy of notice.
PLATES WITHOnr THE NAME OF THE PAINTER, SOME FROM HIS OWN DESIGN'S.
Abraham and the Ajigels ; an etching. The Sliracle of the Manna ; an etching. Job abandoned by his Friends. Charity, an oval ; inscribed Ipse f'lcit. The Origin of Painting. 1787. The Virgin and Infant ; circular
PLATES AFTER VARIOtIS MASTERS.
St. Francis of Sales triumpliing over Heresy after Amiconi. St. Luke painting the Portrait of the Virgin; after Catitarini. The Adulteress before Clirist ; after Agoslino Carracci. Roland and Olympia ; after Annibale Carracci. Clytie ; circular ; after the same, A set of six plates ; after original drawings by the Carracci ; in the Royal Collection, in imitation of the drawings.
A set of eight subjects ; after Castiglione. The Parting of Achilles and Briseis ; after Cipriani. Hector taking leave of Andromache ; after the same, Chryseis restored to her Father ; after the same. The Death of Dido ; after the same. Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida ; after the same. Venus presenting the Cestus to Juno ; after the same. Venus attired by the Graces ; after the same. Tancred and Herminia ; after the same. Tancred and Clorinda; after the same. Shakespeare crowned by Immortahty ; after the same. Rachel hiding the Idols of her Father ; after Pietro da Cortotia. Laocoon attacked by the Serpents ; after the same The Death of Lord Chatham ; after Copley. The Virgin and Infant; after Vano Dolci. A set of thirteen plates from the paintings by chino ; in the cloister of Grotta Ferrata. Twenty-three plates, making a part of eighty-one, from ilrawings by Guercino ; in the Royal Ccllsetion. A set of Portraits of ittustrioos Persons of the time of Henry VIII.; after dramngs by Holbein; in the Royal CoUectiou. Two Portraits of Henry and Charles Brandon, sons of the Dukes of Suffolk ; after two miniatures by Hol- bein, executed in colours ; very fine, Socrates in Prison ; after Angelica Kauffinann. Penelope lamenting Ulysses ; after .ingelica Katiffmann. Telemachus and Mentor in the Isle of Calypso ; after the same. Paulus Emilius educating his Children ; after the same. Coriolanus appeased by his Family ; after the same. The Interview of Edgar and Elfrida after her Marriage with Athelwold ; after the same. This plate was begun by the unfortunate Ryland, and was finished by Bartolozzi for the benefit of his widow. King John ratifying Magna Cliarta ; after Mortimer ; the companion engraved under the same circumstances. The Portrait of Carlo Cignani ; after C. Maratti. The Portrait of Pietro da Cortona ; after the same. Prometheus devoured by the Vulture ; after MichJ-anytlo. The Bust of Michelangelo. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi ; after West. Mary, Queen of Scots, and her Son ; after Zucehero. A Collection of Gems, designed by various artists, engraved by Bartolozzi.
BARTOLOZZI, Qaetano Stefano, a son of Francesco Bartolozzi, was bom in 1757, and was also an engraver, but of no great celebrity. He was the father of the celebrated Madame Vestris. He died in 1821.
BARTSCn, Adam, Ritter von. a modem German engraver, was born at Vienna in 1757. He attended the school of engravers in that city, and studied there under Schmiitzer. In 1775 he published designs of medals during the reign of Maria Theresa, and subsequently engraved numerous plates, some from the works of great masters, and some from his own compositions. He died at Hietzing in 1821. He was principal keeper of the Imperial and Royal Gallery at Vienna, and author of that very elaborate, correct, and useful work, ' Le Peintre Graveur,' which may be safely pro- nounced the best account of prints ever published. For this work he etched a series of facsimiles of unique or extremely rare etchings by Dutch and Flemish artists, in which the touch and spirit of the originals are admirably copied. He also pub- lished Catalogues of the Etchings by Rembrandt and his scholars, of the works of Guido Reni, and of those of Lucas van Leyden, and other artists. pobtbaits.
Adam Bartsch. Johann Christian Brand, painter. A Young Lady in a Nightcap. 1785. Michael Wohlgemuth, painter. Antonio Allegri da Correggio ; after Carlo Maratti. Madame Tscida. A Ghl reading by Candlehght, said to be after Guido. The Marriage of Alexander and Roxana ; after Parmt- giano. A set of thirty-nine plates, in imitation of the drawings of several masters, in the Imperial Collection. Twelve studies of Animals; after J. M. Roos ; four on each plate. A Traveller passing a Forest, with a Boy holding a Lantern ; engraved in the manner of Rembrandt. The Obsequies of Publius Decius Mus, large plate ; after Rubens. Horses ; after Rugendas. Cattle ; after Rubens. Boar-hunt ; after Snijders. His son, Friedbich von Bartsch, published in 1818 a catalogue raisonn^ of all the prints by his
father ; they amount to 505 pieces.
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