Caroline Watson

Caroline Watson (1761?–1814) was an English stipple engraver.

Life

The daughter of the Irish engraver James Watson, she was born in London in 1760 or 1761, and studied under her father. She was known for her skilled worked in the stipple method. She died at Pimlico on 10 June 1814.[1]

Works

John Jeffries, portrait engraving by Caroline Watson

Watson's plates were numerous. In 1784 she engraved a portrait of Prince William of Gloucester, after Joshua Reynolds, and in 1785 a pair of small plates of the Princesses Sophia and Mary, after John Hoppner, which she dedicated to Queen Charlotte. She was then appointed engraver to Queen. She engraved portraits of:[1]

Other works were:[1]

Watson also executed a set of aquatints of the Progress of Female Virtue and Female Dissipation, from designs by Maria Cosway. She engraved several pictures belonging to the Marquess of Bute.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Watson, James (1739?-1790)". Dictionary of National Biography. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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