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Thomas Burke (artist)

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technique. After 1775, Burke worked primarily by engraving in stipple, giving his work depth and richness. Burke preferred to work for publishers and seldom issued prints himself. His engravings typically featured subject pictures. The first engraving he did after Kauffman was
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Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Inc. Retrieved Nov. 30, 2007.
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sitting on a sleeping woman. The print was a best-seller across Europe.
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Untitled piece (1800) by Thomas Burke. The Graf von Galen Collection.
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Burke's best known work was a popular print after Fuseli,
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Queen Charlotte Raising the Genius of the Fine Arts
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Index

Irish
engraver
painter

Dublin
Dublin Society's Schools
Robert West
London
mezzotint
John Dixon
Bartolozzi
Angelica Kauffman
William Wynne Ryland
stipple engraving

The Nightmare
Fuseli
The Nightmare
incubus
Westminster
Wellington


"Thomas Burke, Engraver"




Fagan, Louis Alexander
"Burke, Thomas (1749-1815)" 

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