# Butler Clowes

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**Butler Clowes** (died c.1788) was an English mezzotint-engraver and printseller.[1]

## Life

Clowes lived in Gutter Lane, [Cheapside](/source/Cheapside), London where he kept a print-shop, and his address appeared on engravings by [James Watson](/source/James_Watson_(engraver)) and others.[2]

## Works

Clowes made portraits in [mezzotint](/source/Mezzotint), usually from the life, some of which he sent to the exhibitions of the [Free Society of Artists](/source/Free_Society_of_Artists) from 1768 to 1773. Among those portraits were those of himself, his wife, John Augustus Clowes, [John Glas](/source/John_Glas), Nathan Potts, Mrs. Luke Sullivan after [Tilly Kettle](/source/Tilly_Kettle), and [Charles Dibdin](/source/Charles_Dibdin) as Mungo in the opera of *[The Padlock](/source/The_Padlock)*. He also engraved in mezzotint:[2]

- after [Philip Dawe](/source/Philip_Dawe), *The Hen-pecked Husband* and *The Dying Usurer*, both exhibited in 1768;
- after [John Collett](/source/John_Collett_(artist)), *A Rescue, or the Tars Triumphant*, *Grown Gentlemen taught to dance*, and *The Female Bruisers*, exhibited in 1771;
- after [Egbert Jasperszoon van Heemskerk](/source/Egbert_Jasperszoon_van_Heemskerk), and [George Stubbs](/source/George_Stubbs), and a print entitled *Domestic Employment Starching*, probably after [Henry Morland](/source/Henry_Morland).

## Notes

1. Puerz, Anne. "Clowes, Butler". 5714.

1. Vol. 11.

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