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
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]
- Sir James Harris, and the Hon. Mrs. Stanhope, both after Joshua Reynolds;
- Catherine II of Russia, after Alexander Roslin; and
- William Woollett, after Gilbert Stuart; and
- Samuel Cooper's reputed portrait of John Milton.
Other works were:[1]
- The Marriage of St. Catherine, after Correggio;
- the plates to William Hayley's Life of Romney;
- for John Boydell's Shakespeare, the Death of Cardinal Beaufort, after Reynolds, and a scene from The Tempest, after Francis Wheatley.
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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Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Watson, James (1739?-1790)". Dictionary of National Biography. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Watson, James (1739?-1790)". Dictionary of National Biography. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.