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Robert Strange (engraver)

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After the amnesty Strange went to London and, carrying with him the Prince's seal, which had been left behind in Scotland, to Rouen, a centre of exiled Jacobites. There he studied anatomy under
67:, by his second wife Jean, daughter of Malcolm Scollay of Hunton, he was born at Kirkwall on 14 July 1721. He entered the office of a brother, a lawyer in Edinburgh. He then was apprenticed to 322:. During four years in Italy he was engaged in making copies of pictures to be engraved on his return, always using his own drawings. Of these drawings most of the water-colours went to 434: 645: 419: 446: 369:. He planned a series of 50 of his major works as legacy, from early in his career. Eighty sets of selected impressions of these were bound in 200:
Back in London, Strange exhibited pictures which he had collected, and prepared critical and descriptive catalogues. In 1768, troubles in the
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After a period of dealing in prints and working in London as engraver, Strange fell out with potential patrons at court, including
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Shortly before the Jacobite rising of 1745 Strange fell in love with Isabella, daughter of William Lumisden (who was son of
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Strange went to Italy in 1760. His connections afforded him a passport for travel in France—this was the height of the
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Strange published a portrait of the Young Pretender at the time of the 1745 rebellion. In France he engraved
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Of Strange's children, his eldest daughter Mary Bruce Strange (1748–1784) was artistic. His eldest son was
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on a mission to copy Italian artworks that overlapped with his own plans, and a future rival in
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Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, 1745 engraving by Robert Strange
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Strange, James Charles Stuart (1753-1840), of Hertford Street, Mayfair, Mdx
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Technically, Strange habitually employed drypoint, and was followed by
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An Inquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy of Arts
235:, which belonged to George III. He obtained access to the picture via 408:. A third son, Robert Montagu, was major-general in the Madras army. 64: 635: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the 346:, assumed to be his, are unsigned and not otherwise authenticated. 258: 118:. In 1749 he moved to Paris and placed himself under the engraver 42: 404:(1753–1840), a Member of Parliament. Strange's second son was 204:, of which Strange was a member, led to the foundation of the 98:'s lifeguards; and was in hiding for some months after the 82:, he engraved a plate for the bank-notes of the planned 338:, but this was never published. Classical portraits in 425:
Robert Strange, engraving by the artist himself after
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Strange died at his house, No. 52 Great Queen Street,
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He was at the battles of 7: 274:, on 5 July 1792, and was buried at 249:The Apotheosis of the Royal Children 598:Scots in Italy in the 18th Century 59:The eldest son of David Strang of 14: 47:Robert Strange, 1750 portrait by 651:Dictionary of National Biography 630: 511:Dictionary of National Biography 445: 433: 418: 344:History of the Court of Augustus 126:and returned in 1750 to London. 202:Incorporated Society of Artists 602:National Galleries of Scotland 406:Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange 135:Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha 71:, an engraver, for six years. 1: 149:; it was taken up in 1758 by 581:UK public library membership 548:UK public library membership 402:James Charles Stuart Strange 457:, by Robert Strange (after 160:—and introductions through 704: 227:Strange wished to engrave 166:Johann Joachim Winckelmann 139:Frederick, Prince of Wales 276:St. Paul's, Covent Garden 184:in Rome. He encountered 78:. While with the army at 69:Richard Cooper, the elder 265:St Paul's, Covent Garden 505:"Strange, Robert"  141:, her late husband, by 120:Jacques-Philippe Le Bas 573:10.1093/ref:odnb/24415 540:10.1093/ref:odnb/26638 267: 116:Jean-Baptiste Descamps 74:Strange fought in the 51: 262: 233:Queen Henrietta Maria 112:Claude-Nicolas Le Cat 49:Joseph Samuel Webster 46: 34:Hanoverian succession 688:People from Kirkwall 427:Jean-Baptiste Greuze 397:. She died in 1806. 375:Jean-Baptiste Greuze 326:, and the chalks to 272:Lincoln's Inn Fields 190:Francesco Bartolozzi 180:. He studied at the 151:William Wynne Ryland 114:, and drawing under 36:and was knighted by 182:Academy of St. Luke 170:Anton Raphael Mengs 122:. There he learned 683:Scottish Jacobites 678:Scottish engravers 604:, Edinburgh, p. 28 361:. He disliked the 316:Apollo and Marsyas 300:Return from Market 268: 162:Johann Georg Wille 100:Battle of Culloden 52: 22:Sir Robert Strange 579:(Subscription or 546:(Subscription or 363:stipple engraving 332:Bruce of Kinnaird 16:Scottish engraver 695: 655: 634: 633: 619: 611: 605: 591: 585: 584: 576: 558: 552: 551: 543: 525: 516: 515: 507: 496: 449: 437: 422: 395:James Dennistoun 389:) and sister of 355:William Woollett 351:Raffaele Morghen 340:Thomas Blackwell 245:Marie Antoinette 229:Anthony van Dyck 218:William Woollett 158:Seven Years' War 147:William Chambers 703: 702: 698: 697: 696: 694: 693: 692: 658: 657: 646:Strange, Robert 644:, ed. (1898). 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Index

engraver
Jacobite
Hanoverian succession
George III

Joseph Samuel Webster
Kirkwall
Orkney
Richard Cooper, the elder
rising of 1745
Inverness
Stuart
Prestonpans
Falkirk Muir
Young Pretender
Battle of Culloden
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat
Jean-Baptiste Descamps
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
drypoint
Lord Bute
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Allan Ramsay
William Chambers
William Wynne Ryland
Seven Years' War
Johann Georg Wille
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Anton Raphael Mengs

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