. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . his patterns, butotherwise was entirely self-educated. Bauses principalclaim to honour lies in his vigorous reproduction ofthe portraits of Anton Graff, and in the fact that he hashanded down to posterity the features of many of hiscontemporaries with great naturalness and truth to finds least pleasure in his engravings after Mengs,Dietrich, and others. A successful exponent of French principles was Gott-hard von Miiller (1747—1830), who worked in Stuttgart,,and belonged to the group of engravers inspi
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . his patterns, butotherwise was entirely self-educated. Bauses principalclaim to honour lies in his vigorous reproduction ofthe portraits of Anton Graff, and in the fact that he hashanded down to posterity the features of many of hiscontemporaries with great naturalness and truth to finds least pleasure in his engravings after Mengs,Dietrich, and others. A successful exponent of French principles was Gott-hard von Miiller (1747—1830), who worked in Stuttgart,,and belonged to the group of engravers inspired by was his keen endeavour to combine the fluent techniqueof the earlier Netherlandish engravers with the brilliantexecution of his contemporary Bervic, and he sought also- GOTTHARD VON MULLER 275 to borrow from the English engraver, Strange, somethingof his soft treatment of flesh. Miillers portrait of LouisGalloche after Tocqu^, and his large, finely handledportrait of Louis XVI after Duplessis, may count amongthe best results of this French and German union. His. Fig. 123. Johaiin Fricdricli Bausc : Portrait ol J. G. Sulzcr (detail). Battle of Bunkers Hill, after Turnbull, ranks as oneof the most successful reproductions of more modernpaintings. At a later period Miiller, with great detrimentto his fine talent, fell under the influence of the classicalrevival among contemporary Italian engravers, as is shownb) his Madonna dclla Sedia, etc. 276 ENGRAVING IN GERMANY Gotthard von Miillers talent was inherited by his Wilhelm Muller (1782—1816) was the mostgifted and brilliant upholder of the stern conviction thatthe great province of engraving lay in the reproductionof compositions by the classical masters of Italy. Hisfirst important work, St. John the Evangelist, afterDomenichino, shows all the strength as well as the weak-ness of his school; the artificial arrangement of the line-work and the conventional machinery by which the wholeresult is bui
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