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

Life

Clowes lived in Gutter Lane,

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, London where he kept a print-shop, and his address appeared on engravings by James Watson and others.

Works

Clowes made portraits in

mezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the '' intaglio'' family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzotint achieves tonal ...

, 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

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, and

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as Mungo in the opera of ''

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''. He also engraved in mezzotint: * after

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, ''The Hen-pecked Husband'' and ''The Dying Usurer'', both exhibited in 1768; *after John Collett, ''A Rescue, or the Tars Triumphant'', ''Grown Gentlemen taught to dance'', and ''The Female Bruisers'', exhibited in 1771; *after Egbert Jasperszoon van Heemskerk, and

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, and a print entitled ''Domestic Employment Starching'', probably after Henry Morland.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Clowes, Butler Year of birth missing 1788 deaths English engravers