Lady Louisa Augusta Greville (14 April 1743[1] – buried 11 August 1779)[2] was an English engraver.
Lady Louisa Greville | |
|---|---|
 Louisa Augusta Greville as Hebe by Angelica Kauffmann | |
| Born | 14 April 1743 |
| Died | August 1779 (aged 36) |
| Known for | Engraving |
| Spouse |
William Churchill (m. 1770) |
| Parent(s) | Francis Greville Elizabeth Hamilton |
Family
editLady Louisa Greville was born in London and was the eldest surviving child of Elizabeth Greville and Francis Greville. In 1770, she married William Churchill of Henbury, Dorset.
Artist and Engraver
editShe became a remarkably proficient and talented engraver, a medium which was increasingly popular amongst women during the eighteenth century.[3] Other members of Louisa's family also practised in watercolours, pencil, pen and engraving, including her brothers and sisters. Most of her surviving artworks are engravings after examples by Annibale Carracci, Salvator Rosa, Marco Ricci, Guercino among others.[1][4] She also produced prints of her father's home Warwick Castle, several examples of which survive in the Richard Bull Album kept at The British Museum.[5] The Royal Society of Arts awarded her prizes for her engravings in 1758, 1759 and 1760.[1] No dated works after her marriage in 1770 are known.
Notable collections
edit- Landscape with a horsedrawn sedan chair, 1759, Auckland Art Gallery[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Oxford University Press (21 June 2012). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. OUP USA. p. 493. ISBN 978-0-19-992305-2.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999.)
- ^ A. David, Caroline Watson & Female Printmaking in Late Georgian England, Cambridge 2014, p. 16.
- ^ Delia Gaze; Maja Mihajlovic; Leanda Shrimpton (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-884964-21-3.
- ^ https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1110-992 and https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1917-1208-2646
- ^ "Landscape with a horsedrawn sedan chair". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 4 December 2018.