William Byrne (engraver)
William Byrne (1743–1805) was an English engraver.
Life
Byrne was born in London in 1743. After studying some time under his uncle, an artist little known, he went to Paris, where he became a pupil of Aliamet, and afterwards of Wille.[1] As well as making individual plates, he worked with Thomas Hearne on the Antiquities of Great Britain.
He died in London in 1805, and was buried in Old St. Pancras churchyard. He was the father of painters John Byrne[1] and Mary Green.[2] Landscape engraver John Landseer was his pupil.[3]
Works
His works are considerable; the following are the most deserving of notice:
- Villa Madama: after R. Wilson (Society of Arts medal, 1765).
- Antiquities of Britain; from drawings by Thomas Hearne.
- Views of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland; after Farrington.
- Scenery of Italy; after the fine designs of Francis Smith.
- Apollo watching the Flocks of King Admetus; after Filippo Lauri; the companion to Woollett's print of Diana and Actaeon.
- The Flight into Egypt; a landscape; after Domenichino.
- Evening; a landscape; after Claude Lorrain.
- Abraham and Lot quitting Egypt; after Zuccarelli; the figures by Bartolozzi.
- A Sea-piece; after Vernet.
- Evening; after Both; the landscape by Byrne, the figures by Bartolozzi.
- Two Views of Leuben, in Saxony; after Dietrich.
- The Death of Captain Cook; the figures by Bartolozzi.
- The Falls of Niagara; after R. Wilson.
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References
- 1 2 This article incorporates text from the article "BYRNE, William" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
- ↑ L. H. Cust, ‘Green, James (1771–1834)’, rev. John Sunderland, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 1 March 2015
- ↑ Stephens, Frederic G. (1880). Sir Edwin Landseer. London: Sampson Low, Marston. p. 2.
This article incorporates text from the article "BYRNE, William" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.