Richard Austin Artlett (9 November 1807 – 1 September 1873) was an English engraver and painter. He was a pupil of Robert Cooper, and then of James Thomson.[1]
Works
George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster, 1839 engraving by Artlett
Artlett engraved in the dotted manner. He carried out some figure-subjects, including Boulogne in 1805 and Boulogne in 1855, after John Absolon. Among his portraits were those of Lord Ashburton, after Sir Thomas Lawrence; Lord Lyndhurst, after Alfred Edward Chalon; the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn and Sir James Emerson Tennent, after George Richmond; George MacDonald, after George Reid; Lady Clementina Villiers, after Franz Xaver Winterhalter; and Mrs. Gladstone, after William Say.[1]
Artlett was best known as an engraver of sculpture, in particular for plates in The Art Journal. Among them were:[1]
The Fawn, a statue by C. B. Birch;
The Virgin Mother, a group by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse;
The Leopard-Hunter, a statue by Jens Adolf Jerichau;
The Day-Dream, a statue by Patrick MacDowell;
The Veiled Vestal, a statue by Raffaelle Monti;
Boadicea, a group by John Thomas;
the equestrian statue of Viscount Hardinge, and Asia, one of the groups of the Albert Memorial, by John Henry Foley;
Christ giving sight to the Blind Man, a group by John Denton Crittenden; and
Perdita and Florizel and The Siren and the drowned Leander, groups by Joseph Durham.
References
"Artlett, Richard Austin". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Artlett, Richard Austin". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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