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WOOLLETT, WILLIAM (1735-1785)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 817 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WOOLLETT, WILLIAM (1735-1785) ,
English
  engraver, was born at Maidstone, of a family which came originally from Holland, on the 15th of August 1735. He was apprenticed to John Tinney, an engraver in
Fleet
 
Street
 , London, and studied in the St Martin's
Lane
 
academy
 . His first important
plate
  was from the " Niobe " of Richard Wilson, published by Boydell in 1761, which was followed in 1763 by a companion engraving from the "
Phaethon
  " of the same painter. After West he engraved his fine
plate
  of the " Battle of La Hogue " (1781), and the " Death of General Wolfe " (1776), which is usually considered Woollett's masterpiece. In 1775 he was appointed engraver-in-
ordinary
  to George III.; and he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, of which for several years he acted as secretary. He died in London on the 23rd of May 1785.
In his plates, which unite
work
  with the etching-needle, the dry-point and the graver, Woollett shows the greatest richness and variety of execution. In his landscapes the rendering of water is particularly excellent. In his portraits and historical subjects the rendering of flesh is characterized by
great
  softness and delicacy. His works rank among the
great
  productions of the
English
  school of engraving. Louis Fagan, in his Catalogue Raisonnt of the Engraved Works of William Woollett (1885), has enumerated 123 plates by this engraver.


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