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See also:ANDREW See also:FOULIS (1712—1775)
and See also:ROBERT (1707—1776), Scottish printers and publishers, were the sons of a See also:Glasgow maltman
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Robert was apprenticed to a See also:barber; but his ability attracted the See also:attention of Dr See also:Francis See also:Hutcheson, who strongly recommended him to establish a See also:printing See also:press
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After spending 1738 and 1739 in See also:England and See also:France in See also:company with his See also:brother See also:Andrew, who had been intended for the See also: Unfortunately it became their ambition to establish an institution for the encouragement of the See also:fine arts; and though one of their See also:chief patrons, the See also:earl of See also:Northumberland, warned them to " See also:print for posterity and prosper," they spent their See also:money in See also:collecting pictures, pieces of See also:sculpture and See also:models, in paying for the education and travelling of youthful artists, and in copying the masterpieces of See also:foreign See also:art . Their countrymen were not ripe for such an See also:attempt, and the " See also:Academy " not only proved a failure but involved the projectors in ruin . Andrew died on the 18th of See also:September 1775, and his brother went to See also:London, hoping to realize a large sum by the See also:sale of his pictures . They were sold for much less than he anticipated, and Robert returned broken-hearted to See also:Scotland, where he died at See also:Edinburgh on the 2nd of See also:June 1776 . Robert was the author of a See also:Catalogue of Paintings with See also:Critical Remarks . The business was afterwards carried on under the same name by Robert's son Andrew . See W . J . See also:Duncan, Notices and Documents illustrative of the See also:Literary See also:History of Glasgow, printed for the See also:Maitland See also:Club (1831), which inter alia contains a catalogue of the works printed at the Foulis press, and another of the pictures, statues and busts in See also:plaster of See also:Paris produced at the " Academy " in the university of Glasgow . |
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