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Valentine Green, artist
English, 1739 - 1813
Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of His Ancestors, 1772
Mezzotint
48.3 x 36.4 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1981.1.15
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Etcher, mezzotint and aquatint artist. Became the student of an unknown engraver in Worchester, against the wishes of his father. In a forty-year period he produced close to 400 plates executed after the masters of both old and modern schools. In 1789 the Duke of Bavaria granted him exclusive rights to create and publish engravings after the paintings in the gallery at Dusseldorf. This enterprise, with which his son Rupert helped considerably, had, on account of the continental war, disastrous consequences, and the artist was almost completely ruined. With the foundation of the British Institution in 1805 he was offered the position of Conservator and retained the position until his death. ~~Green's technique is absolutely personal and his composition reveals at each instant some new surprise. Called, "an English Janinet" (Benezit). Named engraver to King George III.~~Reference: Wax, Carol, 'The Mezzotint', New York, 1990~
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Ancestors His of Tomb the Open Breaking Miravan purchase Arts Graphic Achenbach Europe England Print Mezzotint Valentine Green English 4157201104710006 A038634 1981.1.15 AFGA
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