Butler Clowes

Butler Clowes (died c.1788) was an English mezzotint-engraver and printseller.[1]

Butler Clowes, 1802 engraving

Life

Clowes lived in Gutter Lane, Cheapside, London where he kept a print-shop, and his address appeared on engravings by James Watson and others.[2]

Works

Clowes made portraits in mezzotint, usually from the life, some of which he sent to the exhibitions of the Free Society of Artists from 1768 to 1773. Among those portraits were those of himself, his wife, John Augustus Clowes, John Glas, Nathan Potts, Mrs. Luke Sullivan after Tilly Kettle, and Charles Dibdin as Mungo in the opera of The Padlock. He also engraved in mezzotint:[2]

Notes

  1. Puerz, Anne. "Clowes, Butler". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5714. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 2.0 2.1  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Clowes, Butler". Dictionary of National Biography 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Clowes, Butler". Dictionary of National Biography 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.