Apollo als herder van koning Admetus
William Byrne
1768
Medium
etching
Dimensions
513; 408
About this artwork
Aankoop uit het F.G. Waller-Fonds
About the Artist
William Byrne · 1906–1997
William Byrne (1743–1805) was a distinguished British landscape engraver and print publisher whose refined interpretations of picturesque British scenery helped establish landscape engraving as an independent artistic genre in late eighteenth-century England. Born in London and trained in the French tradition of tonal engraving under masters Aliamet and Jean-Georges Wille, Byrne brought Continenta...