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TURNER, CHARLES (1773–1857)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 474 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURNER, See also:CHARLES (1773–1857) , See also:English engraver, was See also:born at See also:Woodstock in 1773. He entered the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy in 1795; and, See also:engraving in stipple in the manner of See also:Bartolozzi, he was employed by See also:Alderman See also:Boydell. His finest plates, however, are in See also:mezzotint, a method in which he engraved J.M.W. Turner's " See also:Wreck " and twenty-four subjects of his See also:Liber studiorum, See also:Reynolds's " See also:Marlborough See also:Family," and many of See also:Raeburn's best portraits, including those of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, See also:Lord See also:Newton, Dr See also:Hamilton, Professors Dugald See also:Stewart and See also:John See also:Robinson, and Dr See also:Adam. He also worked after See also:Lawrence, See also:Shee and See also:Owen. He was an admirable engraver, large, broad and masterly in See also:touch; and he reproduced with See also:great fidelity the characteristics of the various painters whose See also:works he translated into See also:black and See also:white. In 1828 he was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy. He died on the 1st of See also:August 1857.

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