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SCHIAVONETTI, LUIGI (1765-181o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHIAVONETTI, See also:LUIGI (1765-181o) , See also:Italian engraver, was See also:born at See also:Bassano in See also:Venetia on the 1st of See also:April 1765. After having studied See also:art for several years he was employed by Testolini, an engraver of very indifferent abilities, to execute imitations of See also:Bartolozzi's See also:works, which he passed off as his own. In 1790 Testolini was invited by Bartolozzi to join him in See also:England, and, it having been discovered that Schiavonetti, who accompanied him, had executed the plates in question, he was employed by Bartolozzi and became an eminent engraver in both the See also:line and the dot manner. Among his See also:early works are four plates of subjects from the See also:French Revolution, after Benazech. He also produced a " Mater Doloros t " after Vandyck, and See also:Michelangelo's See also:cartoon of the " Surprise of the Soldiers on the See also:Banks of the See also:Arno." From 18o5 to 18o8 he was engaged in See also:etching See also:Blake's designs to See also:Blair's See also:Grave, which, with a portrait of the artist engraved by Schiavonetti after T. See also:Phillips, R.A., were published in 18o8. The etching of See also:Stothard's " See also:Canterbury Pilgrims " was one of his latest works, and on his See also:death on the 7th of See also:June 1810 the See also:plate was taken up by his See also:brother Niccolo, and finally completed by See also:James See also:Heath.

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