Tags: Robert Austin engraving etching print life drawing men painted en plein air portraits religion
Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection
Literature:
Campbell Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh. cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London,
1930; Gordon Cooke, Drawings and Prints by Robert Austin, exh. cat.,The
Fine Art Society, London, 2001
Austin was one of the greatest exponents of line engraving and etching. Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints and Drawings
at the British Museum, who compiled the standard reference work on
Austin, compared him to Albrecht Dürer, noting that Austin had ‘more
than a touch of that master in him’ (Dodgson, Robert Austin, exh.
cat.,Twenty-One Gallery, London, 1930).
We are grateful to Rachel and Clare Austin, Gordon Cooke and David Maes for assistance.
