The Sun.
London, England, 1801-10-17 00:00:00

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ON Vriday• night, October 2, died of a ciedine,
at Ai s house at WalWortli,-.in the 60th year of his
age, John Brown, the Senior Associate Engraver
of'the Royal Academy, to which situation be was
eluted about thirty years agO; nearly at the same
time with Chambers and Ravenet, who were- both
Associate Engravers, • and soon 'after the institution.
of the Royal Aeadetny, which obtained the pa-
tronage of His Majesty in 176. Brown in his
early youth had a great propensity to the Arts,-and
about the year '17;5, was apprenticed to J. Tine
ney, an Engraver and' Printseller, in Fleet-street,
who was also master to 'Anthony Walker and Wil-
liam Woollett.. Tinney. dying during Brown's
prenticeship„ Woollett, who was about —six years-
older, and who at that time had made a considera-
ble progress in his profession, took Brown under
his tuition, and in the course of a few years he very
much assisted Woollett in etching the landscapes of
several of his most ktit' lehrated. prints, particularly
his large plate of Celadon and Amelia (from Thom-
son's Seasons), the Jocund Peasants, and its com-
panions,: &c.' &c. Brown first distingn., hed him.
self by a large landscape he engraved of St.- John
preaching in the 'Wilderness, the figures of which
were engraved by Hall. Indeed Brown's talent lay
principally in landstlapes, particularly in etching:
them. The bnldness", brilliancy, and beautiful va--
riety of which were very much in Woollett's man-
ner, and perhapS equal in me.O.t to any produced by
that celebrated Engraver, and inferior to none. in
this Country, except those executed by'Vivarcs,
the taste of whose foliage, &c . surpasses. all cons-
petition. petition. - Brown engravea 'several capital, land.:
scape's for Boyclell, &c. &c. and'hasdied much re-
gretted for his unafreaed good`.nature, and the uni-,
versal integrity of his charaCter..
,Ist is remarkable, that though there are never :
more than
.six Assnciate-Engravers of the Royal
Academy an one time, three have e..ied
Kin the
last four years, Howard, in 1797, Major in. 179-5;
and now Brown, by whose death Valentine Green,
• the me-zzotinto scraper, becomes the Senior As-
sociate Engraver of the Royal Academy. They
now stand in. the following rotation :—Green,
Coliyer, Heath, Smith, and Fittler. The Rice-
tion , of the neW Associate Engraver will be
at the beginning- of nett month, in the room of
BrOWn ; and also .the chOic'e Of a new Associate
Painter, in the- place of Michael Angelo Rooker,
the Scene Painter, whO died last 'l9-arch, Much
oinipetition is exiieded among the 100 g. Artists
for those two desir.abledistinguishtnerik'.- •
Francis BartOlo.zzi, -Esq. is the only Engraver
who had been:honoured with the diploma, as Roval
Academician.' This diploma is signed by His Ma-
' jesty, and entitles the Artit to the'appellation, of
Esquire ; the rest signed by the President, in which
they are stiled Gentlemen. Trartolozzi engraves at
this time better than any other Engraver, though
he is now in the 74th year of his age. He is the
son of a Goldsn;:11, at Florence, where he was
hOin September, .17 28.
Anthony Walker, fellow pupil to Woollett and
Brown, began very much •to distinguish- himself in
his piofession, and also to be celebrated as an ors.
gi nal designer. r agra3ielLttiA_:fiv r • itv'Vrtiol,,..
lett's• large plate -of Niobe, but was stopped in. his
progress by • death.. He died of a decline, near
Kensington,. in May, ,1765. He was master to
Collyer, and Collyer was,Hea,th's master. Walker
was
,butied in Kensington Church-yard, with this
inscription on his tomb-stone :
ANTHONY WALKER, Engraver'.
Died May 4, 1765—Aged 39 years. - •
• The Christian Motto—
To live in'ehrist,
•
To die.is

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