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FRANCESCO BARTOLOZZI (1725-1815)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 451 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCESCO See also:BARTOLOZZI (1725-1815)  , See also:Italian engraver, was See also:born at See also:Florence . He was originally destined to follow the profession of his See also:father, who was a See also:gold- and See also:silver-See also:smith; but he manifested so much skill and See also:taste in designing that he was placed under the superintendence of two Florentine artists, who instructed him in See also:painting . After devoting three years to that See also:art, he went to See also:Venice and studied See also:engraving . He made very rapid progress, and executed some See also:works of considerable importance at Venice .. He then removed' for a See also:short See also:time to See also:Rome, where he completed a set of engravings representing events from the See also:life of St Nilus, and, after returning to Venice, set out for See also:London in 1764 . For nearly See also:forty years he resided in London, and produced an enormous number of engravings, the best being those of Clytie, after Annibale See also:Caracci, and of the Virgin and See also:Child, after Carlo See also:Dolce . A See also:great proportion of them are from the works of See also:Cipriani and See also:Angelica See also:Kauffmann . See also:Bartolozzi also contributed a number of plates to See also:Boydell's See also:Shakespeare See also:Gallery . In 1802 he was invited to See also:Lisbon as director of the See also:National See also:Academy . He remained in See also:Portugal till his See also:death . His son Gaetano Stephano (1757–1821), also an engraver, was the father of Madame See also:Vestris .

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