Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nwas for a hundred plates, excluding the frontis-piece. Of these, seventy were published, while ofthe remaining thirty, some were finished, somewere only etched, and a few stopped short atsketches. Perhaps the most faultless work Turnerever did is to be found in the etchings for theseplates. The engravers employed for the mezzo-tinting were Charles Turner, William Say, Dun-karton, Clint, Easling, Lupton, Dawe, S. W.Reynolds, W. Annis, and Hodgetts. The firstplate executed, however, A Bridge and Goats, isan aquatint, by F. C. Lewis. The Liber Studiorumwas fully chronicled by Mr. W. G. Rawlinson, inwhose book on the subject he details all the statesof the plates. Turner strongly objected to parting with anyof his sketches. Once he had a picture stolen, andhe went to Mr. Henry Graves, at whose house mSouth Lambeth he often dined on Sundays, andmade a pencil drawing to illustrate the composi-tion, which Mr. Graves pushed into his desk withthe rest of the paper. I say, said Turner, you w r
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S» wu w I PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. are not going to run away with my drawinglike that, it will be worth something one day.Mr. Graves used to tell another anecdote illus-trating Turners economy. He had engaged withTurner to make the drawings for Scotts poemsand prose works, at so much a drawing, andtravelling expenses extra. When Mr. Gravesreceived the account, fifteen pounds was chargedfor travelling all over Scotland. On expressingsurprise at the amount, Turner, mistaking theremark for a complaint, said, Well, Mr. Graves,I should like to see you do it for less. He musthave walked nearly the whole time he was engagedin making the drawings. From 1808 to 1811 Turner had a house at Ham-mersmith. In 1812 he moved to Queen Anne StreetWest, to a house near the corner of Harley Street,which was pulled down about 1880. This re-mained his official address to the end of his life,although Solus, or Sandycombe, Lodge, at Twicken-ham, is also given in some of the catalogues.In the years between 18

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