Richard Austin Artlett (9 November 1807 – 1 September 1873) was a British engraver and painter. He was a pupil of Robert Cooper, and then of James Thomson.

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Artlett engraved in the dotted manner. He carried out some figure-subjects, including ''Boulogne in 1805'' and ''Boulogne in 1855'', after John Absolon. Among his portraits were those of Lord Ashburton, after Sir Thomas Lawrence; Lord Lyndhurst, after Alfred Edward Chalon; the Right Hon.

Henry Goulburn Henry Goulburn PC FRS (19 March 1784 – 12 January 1856) was a British Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846. Background and education Born in London, Goulburn was the eldest son of a wealthy planter, Munbee G ...

and Sir

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, after George Richmond;

George MacDonald George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational church, Congregational Minister (Christianity), minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature a ...

, after

George Reid Sir George Houston Reid, (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was an Australian politician who led the Reid Government as the fourth Prime Minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905, having previously been Premier of New South Wales fr ...

; Lady Clementina Villiers, after

Franz Xaver Winterhalter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court ...

; and Mrs. Gladstone, after William Say. Artlett was best known as an engraver of sculpture, in particular for plates in ''

The Art Journal ''The Art Journal'' was the most important British 19th-century magazine on art. It was founded in 1839 by Hodgson & Graves, print publishers, 6 Pall Mall, with the title ''Art Union Monthly Journal'' (or ''The Art Union''), the first issue of 7 ...

.'' Among them were: *''The Fawn'', a statue by C. B. Birch; *''The Virgin Mother'', a group by

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 – 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of H ...

; *''The Leopard-Hunter'', a statue by Jens Adolf Jerichau; *''The Day-Dream'', a statue by Patrick MacDowell; *''The Veiled Vestal'', a statue by

Raffaelle Monti Raffaele Monti (often misspelled Rafaelle or Raffaelle; Milan 1818–1881) was an Italian sculptor, author and poet. Born in Milan, he studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti, in the Imperial Academy. At the age of on ...

; *''Boadicea'', a group by John Thomas; *the equestrian statue of

Viscount Hardinge Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of Kings Newton in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory politician Sir Henry Hardinge. His son, the second Viscount, represented D ...

, and ''Asia'', one of the groups of the

Albert Memorial The Albert Memorial, directly north of the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington Gardens, London, was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her beloved husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic R ...

, by

John Henry Foley John Henry Foley (24 May 1818 – 27 August 1874), often referred to as J. H. Foley, was an Irish sculptor, working in London. he is best known for his statues of Daniel O'Connell in Dublin, and of Prince Albert for the Albert Memorial in Lond ...

; *''Christ giving sight to the Blind Man'', a group by John Denton Crittenden; and *''Perdita and Florizel'' and ''The Siren and the drowned Leander'', groups by

Joseph Durham Joseph Durham (1814 – 27 October 1877) was an English sculptor. Life Durham was born in London in 1814. Around 1827 he was apprenticed o John Francis. He later worked in the studio of E. H. Baily for three years, and exhibited his ...

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* An engraving of by Alfred Edward Chalon, for Finden's Gallery of the Graces , 1834, with a poetical illustration by

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough ...

. * An engraving of , by

William Boxall Sir William Boxall (29 June 1800 – 6 December 1879) was an English painter and museum director. Early life and education He was born at Oxford on 29 June 1800, and baptised 29 July at St Michael's Church, Oxford, to Thomas Boxall (d. 1847) ...

for Finden’s Gallery of the Graces, 1834, with a poetical illustration by

(A Pleasant Memory). {{DEFAULTSORT:Artlett, Richard English engravers 19th-century English painters English male painters 1807 births 1873 deaths 19th-century English male artists