LITHOGRAPH BY CHARLES TURNER LONDON 1800 RUSSIAN CONSORT OF TSAR ALEXANDER I

LITHOGRAPH BY CHARLES TURNER LONDON 1800 RUSSIAN CONSORT OF TSAR ALEXANDER I (image 1/1)
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LITHOGRAPH BY CHARLES TURNER LONDON 1800 RUSSIAN CONSORT OF TSAR ALEXANDER I Very nice lithograph from a painting by Monier engraved by Charles Turner ca. 1800. The lithograph depicts Elizabeth the consort of Emperor Alexander I (the Tsar of Russia). The lithograph is mounted on a board and framed.Charles Turner (31 August 1774 Woodstock, Oxfordshire - 1 August 1857) was an English mezzotint engraver and draughtsman. Through his mother's influence he had access to the famous gallery at Blenheim Palace. Turner moved to London in about 1789, was apprenticed to the engraver John Jones, enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools and worked for Alderman John Boydell, the important print publisher. Turner was skilled in stipple and aquatint as well as mezzotint, his diverse talents producing a large range of subjects covering topography and genre. His main interest, though, was portraiture, and the greater part of the more than six hundred plates he created during his career, were portraits. His close friendship with J.M.W. Turner, led to his engraving much of the artist's work, and to his engraving twenty-four of the plates for Liber Studiorum. He engraved many of the finest Henry Raeburn portraits, including Sir Walter Scott. A remarkable set of his engravings, "The Rivers of England", published between 1823 and 1827, confirmed his great read more
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