Joseph Wagner (1706 – 1780) was a highly regarded eighteenth century German engraver and draughtsman.

Biography

He was born in Thalendorf in

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, on

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, in 1706. He studied painting at Venice under

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, who persuaded him to turn to engraving, and Wagner accompanied Amigoni to Rome and Bologna, and in 1733 to England. He afterwards went to Paris, to study engraving under

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. He then made a second stay in England, where his first productions were portraits of the three princesses,

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, Amelia, and

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, the daughters of George ll. He engraved several other plates in England, but returned to Venice, where he opened a school and also carried on a considerable business as a print seller. He died in Munich in 1780. His prints are very numerous, and his students included

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Antonio Capellan Antonio Capellan (c. 1740 in Venice – 1793 in Rome) was an Italian engraver, active in a Neoclassical style. He trained with Joseph Wagner. Capellan is best known for making engraved copies of masterworks of the Italian Renaissance found in p ...

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and

Jean Jacques Flipart Jean Jacques Flipart (1719 – 10 July 1782) was a French Engraving, engraver. Biography Flipart was born in Paris. His father was the engraver Jean Charles Flipart, under whom he received his initial training in the engraver's art. His bro ...

References

*''This article incorporates text from the article'' "Wagner, Joseph" i
''Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers''
by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, a 1905 publication now in the

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. G. Bell and Sons, London. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Joseph 1706 births 1780 deaths German engravers German printmakers