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GREEN, VALENTINE (17391813)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 536 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GREEN, VALENTINE (17391813) , British engraver, was born at Halesowen. He was placed by his father in a solicitor's office at Evesham, where he remained for two years; but ultimately he decided, on his own responsibility, to abandon the legal profession and became apupil of a line engraver at Worcester. In 1765 he migrated to London and began
work
  as a mezzotint engraver, having taught himself the technicalities of this art, and quickly rose to a position in absolutely the front rank of British engravers. He became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1767, an associate-engraver of the Royal
Academy
  in 1775, and for some
forty
  years he followed his profession with the greatest success. The exclusive right of engraving and publishing plates from the pictures in the Dusseldorf gallery was granted him by the duke of Bavaria in 1789, but, after he had issued more than twenty of these plates, the siege of that city by the French put an end to this undertaking and caused him serious
financial
  loss. From this cause, and through the failure of certain other speculations, he was reduced to poverty; and in consequence he took the post of keeper of the British Institutionin 18o5, and continued in this office for the remainder of his life. During his career as an engraver he produced some four hundred plates after portraits by Reynolds,
Romney
 , and other British artists, after the compositions of Benjamin West, and after pictures by Van Dyck,
Rubens
 ,
Murillo
 , and other old masters. It is claimed for him that he was one of the first engravers to show how admirably mezzotint could be applied to the translation of pictorial compositions as well as portraits, but at the present time it is to his portraits that most attention is given by collectors. His engravings are distinguished by exceptional richness and subtlety of tone, and by very judicious management of relations of Iight and shade; and they have, almost without exception, notable freshness and grace of handling.
See Valentine Green, by Alfred Whitman (London, 1902).


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